Book cover for The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh by Ingrid Persaud, featured in the January 2024 Book Bulletin, showing a person hanging upside down from a yellow rope shaped like an anchor on red.

The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

Country of Authorship: Trinidad & Tobago
Author: Ingrid Persaud
Genre: Fiction

Synopsis

The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh (Faber), Ingrid Persaud’s second novel, tackles the infamous gangster who terrorised Trinidad and Tobago in the 1940s and 50s, as told through the voices of four women, Popo, Mana Lala, Doris, and Rosie.