With the Kisses of His Mouth - Softcover

Roffey, Monique

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847398723 ISBN 13: 9781847398727

Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK, 2012

Synopsis

Provocative and explicitly candid, this is a memoir which explores hidden worlds and breaks new ground. It is the story of an extraordinary love affair, a devastating break-up and what happened next: a sexual odyssey...

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Review

'It is astoundingly brave. It is funny. It speeds along. It has magic at its heart - that indefinable sliver of human warmth and hope that all the best, most searching memoirs seem to have' --Observer

'Moments of startling candour throughout... Roffey is both wise and moving and is blessed with admirable honesty' --Independent on Sunday

'A vivid, entertaining and unexpectedly moving read' --Sunday Times

'Explicit and intrepid... skeptical and humorous... a blast of a read' --Independent

'From Craigslist to tantra classes, this is a heartbreaking and, at times, explicit memoir of rediscovery' --Elle

'A memoir which has entertained, enthralled and enlightened me as Monique Roffey reveals the pain love can cause but also the value sex can have. Indeed, the reader may come to think that we all need our own sexual odyssey' --Erotic Review

'A brave and audacious exploration of female sexuality... The writing is spirited, candid, sometimes humorous, definitely full-on and, as a woman's response to sexuality, refreshing' --Carol Drinkwater, Mslexia

'In a quest to heal her broken heart, Monique Roffey started seeking answers to some powerful questions. Does ruling out love mean ruling out sex? Can you have great sex without love? Can great love survive without sex?' --Psychologies Magazine

`A view into a contemporary world of female sexuality which is often warm, liberating and very funny'
--Sydney Morning Herald, Pick of the Week

'An intelligent, dark, thorny but redemptive book about sex' --Robert Rowland Smith, author of `Breakfast with Socrates'

About the Author

Monique Roffey is an award winning Trinidadian-born British writer. She has written four novels and a memoir. Three of her novels are set in the Caribbean and form a loose trilogy which engages with political and environmental issues in the region. The most recent of these Caribbean novels is House of Ashes, published in July 2014. Set on the fictional Caribbean island of Sans Amen, it tells the story of three characters, a gunman, a hostage and a boy soldier caught up in a botched coup d'état. Archipelago, published in 2012, is both an epic sea voyage and an examination of climate change from the point of view of a man from the southern Caribbean. It won the OCM BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Literature in 2013. The judges commended it for its 'exploration of the greater Caribbean space in which is embedded a real-life story of trauma and loss and ultimately redemption that is both contemporary and compelling'. The White Woman on the Green Bicycle, a story that maps the creolisation of a colonial couple during the early Independence years in Trinidad, received widespread critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2010 and the Encore prize 2011. Her erotic memoir, With the Kisses of his Mouth was published in 2011 to much praise and controversy and was reviewed in the Guardian as 'a subversive work that transcends the author's personal story: it stands alone in the chasm that has opened between feminist literature and the belles du jour brigade'. Roffey has a PhD in Creative Writing and teaches regularly for The Arvon Foundation and the Writer's Lab in Skyros. She is a member of the action group Carib-Lit and teaches and runs workshops regularly in Trinidad too. She divides her time equally between London and Port of Spain. Find out more at http://www.moniqueroffey.co.uk

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1847398723
• ISBN 13: 9781847398727
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480