Monique Roffey

Monique Roffey is a Trinidadian-born British writer and memoirist whose novels include Archipelago, House of Ashes, The Mermaid of Black Conch and The White Woman on the Green Bicycle. Archipelago, which follows a father and daughter sailing through the Caribbean after a flood, won the 2013 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and The Mermaid of Black Conch took the Costa Book of the Year award in 2021.