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The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh
- Narrated by: Ingrid Persaud, Chanel Quesnel, Martina Laird, Melanie La Barrie, Joseph Degnan
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
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Summary
FROM THE WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2020 AND THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2021
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 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.
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- D G JENKINS-JONES
- 13-05-24
Addicted from page one
Loved the characters, the language, the nicknames. Life can be hard and cruel… and this story created a credible world of gangster abuse. The ending doesn’t exactly bring peace, but some kind of closure nevertheless.
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- MS C PEGUS
- 28-04-24
It was ok
The reference to the changes, food and culture in Trinidad in the 1940s was interesting. The actors captured the local accents very well. The main character Boyce was a truly awful character with no redeeming qualities. The references to post colonial colourism and class structure was subtly weaved into the story. Because Boyce was so insufferable I found it difficult to connect to the characters. Although it was obviously all women linked to him had vulnerabilities and suffered abuse at his hands. It was still difficult to see his appeal to the women in his life. The blurb described him as charismatic. I beg to differ. There was nothing charismatic or redeeming about him. I wanted to give up reading half way through but stuck it out because I absolutely loved the author’s previous work. I did not enjoy this one as much.
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- Liz Pemberton
- 17-06-24
An enthralling story!
The brilliance of this story had me hooked! I was totally immersed in the life of Boysie and the brilliant women whose lives revolved around him. This is such a rich and powerfully written book capturing an aspect of Trinidad that is eerie and enthralling!
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