The surroundings, the climate, the lifestyle. It’s an adventure, and they are young, happy, and confident that they will suceed where, it seems, many before them have failed. He has a three year contract with a shipping company. It tells the story of one woman, her life and marriage, and wraps around it the story of Trinidad in the second half of the twentieth century.įrench born Sabine moved to Trinidad in 1956 with her English husband, George. Since then it appeared on the shortlist, and now that I have read it I have to say that I would be thrilled to see it win. I wasn’t sure that it would be my sort of book, but I heard so much praise that I really had to order a copy. I didn’t come across The White Woman on the Green Bicycle until it appeared on the longlist for the Orange Prize for Fiction.
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