It has been characterised 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." Her novel "Archipelago", published in July 2012, set in the aftermath of a flood, examines climate change from the perspective of a man from the southern Caribbean. Andrew Miller (Costa Award winner, 2012) said: ""Archipelago" is beautifully done. There's a warmth to it, an exuberance and a wisdom, that makes the experience of reading it feel not just pleasurable but somehow instructive. It's funny, sometimes bitingly poignant. And how well Roffey writes a male central character. A brilliant piece of storytelling." "Archipelago" won the 2013 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, being commended 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 novel was judged the winner of the fiction category of the prize, and at the Bocas Lit Fest was announced on 27 April 2013 as the best overall book from all categories. Roffey's 2014 novel, "House of Ashes", is a fictionalised account of the events surrounding the 1990 attempted coup in Trinidad. Ronald Adamolekun, for "Wasafiri" magazine, said: "House of Ashes" will be remembered as the most authoritative fictionalised account of the 1990 Trinidad and Tobago revolution, arguably the darkest moment of the island’s history." "The Telegraph" called it "vigorous, grimly absorbing tale", while "The Observer"′s reviewer concluded: "Roffey's writing is raw and visceral and she thrusts her readers headlong into the very middle of the action, her pen as powerful as the butts of the guns shoved in her hostages' backs." A fifth novel, "The Tryst", published in July 2017, was sold twice, first to Simon and Schuster UK, and then to independent press Dodo Ink. Having worked on it, on and off, for fourteen years, Roffey revisits the tale of Adam’s first wife, Lilith, and examines the common but taboo issue of celibacy within marriage. Like much of Roffey’s work, it weaves magical realism into a contemporary setting. Many well known literary writers, sex writers, and sex workers have applauded "The Tryst."