White woman on a green
bicycle
by Monique Roffey--------------------
When George and
Sabine Harwood arrive in Trinidad from England George
instantly takes to their new life, but Sabine feels
isolated, heat-fatigued, and ill at ease with the racial
segregation and the imminent dawning of a new era. Her
only solace is her growing fixation with Eric Williams,
the charismatic leader of Trinidad's new national party,
to whom she pours out all her hopes and fears for the
future in letters that she never brings herself to send.
As the years progress, George and Sabine's marriage
endures for better or worse. When George discovers
Sabine's cache of letters, he realises just how many
secrets she's kept from him - and he from her - over the
decades. And he is seized by an urgent, desperate need
to prove his love for her, with tragic consequences...
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