The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

De: Ingrid Persaud

Narrado por: Ingrid Persaud, Chanel Quesnel, Martina Laird, Melanie La Barrie, Joseph Degnan

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.

Popo is brilliant, vulnerable and stuck - but despite those who want to own her, she is determined to free herself from the traps of her past, whatever the cost. Mana Lala is equally as focussed on her little boy who connects her to the man she loves, and she will do anything to keep them both close. For Doris, life is an opportunity she will grab with all her might - hers is another iron will constrained by the truths of being a woman in 1930s Trinidad. And then there is Rosie, pouring her soul into her business, her lover Etty and her store.

Four brave and brilliant women, connected and controlled by one man, and a world that puts all power to his elbow. This is their story, and for some of them, it is all that is left.

©2024 Ingrid Persaud (P)2024 Faber & Faber

So full of the caribbean !!

The performances and writing are both so authentic ! The subject is difficult and complex but the writing is simple and real . I’ll read and listen again !

Another fantast book by Ingrid Persaud

Ingrid Persaud has magically brought to life a story of Trinidads first notorious gangster and the women that lived loved and died in his shadow.

One of my 2024 Top 10

Wonderfully read, and an interesting story with complex characters all connected to one person, who perhaps has the least interesting story of the group.