Monique Roffey

Monique Roffey spent most of 1997 living in West Jerusalem, working as an English teacher for the British Council. Her first novel, Sun Dog (Scribners, 2002) appears in paperback in May 2003. She is centre director of the Arvon Foundation, and lives in Devon.

After the bomb

Most, I remember the smashed watermelons. They were in season. And rabbis keening, clutching long wiry beards and prayer books, standing around in groups. Mobile phones passing in a circle,

By Monique Roffey

/ 21 Jan 2003