Ingrid Persaud

Ingrid Persaud is the Costa First Novel Award winning author of Love After Love: a remarkably sensitive exploration of familial love, dissolution, and renewal. It is with great excitement that Ingrid comes to Edinburgh to present her first book since: The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh.

We hope you'll join us in celebrating this wonderful author!

The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

This is the tale of four women.

Popo: brilliant, vulnerable and stuck. She's determined to free herself from the traps of her past.

Mana Lala: a devoted mother - her only connection to her man is their little boy, and she will do anything to keep them close.

For Doris, well he's glorious and once she's licked him into shape, her husband presents an opportunity to climb the social ladder. She's heard the awful stories, but she's sure they won't be hers.

Rosie just wants to mind her business, her lover, Etty, and her store.

Four lives, connected and controlled by one man: the notorious, charismatic gangster Boysie Singh. Pull up a chair and let these women tell of the man they believed could love, help or free them, and how some of them survived to tell a tale at all.

About Ingrid Persaud

Ingrid Persaud's debut novel, Love After Love, won the Costa First Novel Award, the Author's Club First Book Award and the Indie Book Award for Fiction. Other prizes include the BBC National Short Story Award and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She was born in Trinidad and lives in London.

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