# Passiontide

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- Book: [Passiontide](https://www.bookquiver.com/monique-roffey/passiontide) ([Passiontide.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/monique-roffey/passiontide.md))
- Authors: [Monique Roffey](https://www.bookquiver.com/monique-roffey)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-15-2992-544-9
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2025-05-15
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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. 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, a pink-haired, straight-talking local activist. 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. In a community in which women’s voices are often silenced and violence against them is overlooked time after time, the group soon find themselves compelled to speak out – and to act. But even they could never have foreseen the consequences of their courage…