The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh: FROM THE WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD

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Ingrid Persaud

The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

FROM THE WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD

Ingrid Persaud

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SWIFT PRESS
23 July 2024

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Historical fiction

FROM THE WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2021

'With Ingrid Persaud's, assured, wizened and brilliant hand at the pen, these women become vitally, thrillingly, and unforgettably alive.' MARLON JAMES 'A voice that has a vibrancy of its own.' RACHEL JOYCE 'A talented and engaging storyteller.' Sunday Times 'Persaud has a knack for finding the sublime in the ordinary.' SARA COLLINS, Guardian

From the award-winning author of Love After Love, comes an epic of wonder, danger and risk.

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 both 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.

PRAISE FOR LOVE AFTER LOVE

'A beautiful book. I adored it.' RICHARD OSMAN 'Full of wit and soul.' TRACY CHEVALIER 'Unforgettable' MARLON JAMES 'It made me ugly cry' JESSIE BURTON 'Glorious' RACHEL JOYCE

By: Ingrid Persaud
Imprint: SWIFT PRESS
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Export - Airside ed
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 150mm, Spine: 40mm
Weight: 658g
ISBN: 9780571386505
ISBN 10: 0571386504
Pages: 544
Publication Date: 23 July 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Born in Trinidad, Ingrid Persaud won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2017 and the BBC Short Story Award in 2018. Her debut novel Love After Love won the Costa First Novel Award 2020. She read law at the LSE and was a legal academic before taking degrees in fine art at Goldsmiths, University of London and Central Saint Martins. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Prospect and Pree magazines. Ingrid lives in London.