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The Mermaid of Black Conch: Monique Roffey in Conversation


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The winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2020 talks about her remarkable book.
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The Mermaid of Black Conch is based on a Neo-Taino legend of a beautiful woman transformed into a mermaid. Set in 1976 in a Caribbean village, it is a lyrical and vivid story of love, loss, family and friendship, as well as the destructive power of jealousy, and the terrible force of nature. This is the seventh book by Monique Roffey, her first love story and winner of the Costa Book of the Year, 2020. It was also shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020 and longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize. Join Monique at this special event as she talks about her award-winning book, her life and career with poet Nikita Gill ....

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'Utterly original' Monique Roffey wins Costa book of the year


Last modified on Thu 28 Jan 2021 06.48 EST
Monique Roffey has won the £30,000 Costa book of the year award for her sixth novel, The Mermaid of Black Conch, which opens as a fisherman on a Caribbean island sees a “barnacled, seaweed-clotted” mermaid raise her head from the sea.
Suzannah Lipscomb, the historian and broadcaster who chaired the judges, said the novel was “utterly original – unlike anything we’ve ever read – and feels like a classic in the making from a writer at the height of her powers”. Based on a legend from the Taino, an indigenous people of the Caribbean,
the novel is a dark love story about fisherman David and Aycayia, a beautiful woman cursed by jealous wives to live as a mermaid, who has swum the Caribbean for centuries. ....

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