Passiontide av Monique Roffey

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<p><b>Four women spark a revolution on a Caribbean island - the electrifying new novel from the Costa-winning author of <i>The Mermaid of Black Conch</i>.<br></b><br><b>'Vital, enraging and brilliant. I loved it' SARAH WINMAN</b><br><br>Early one morning, at the close of St Colibri's carnival, a young female steel-pan player is found dead beneath a cannonball tree. It is a discovery that will transform the lives of everyone on this small island.<br><br>As the days pass, this shocking event draws together four women. There's Sharleen, a journalist with an eye for the real story. Her childhood friend Tara, the pink-haired, straight-talking star of the activism scene. Gigi, the 'notorious' founder of the Port Isabella Sex Workers Collective. And Daisy, first lady of St Colibri, who is haunted by a disappearance in her own family decades ago.<br><br>In a community in which women's voices are often silenced and violence against them is often overlooked, the group soon find themselves compel