TCR Presents: Ingrid Persaud in Conversation with Colin Grant

Join Ingrid Persaud and Colin Grant as they discuss Ingrid's electrifying new novel, 'Love After Love'.

Meet the Ramdin-Chetan family: forged through loneliness, broken by secrets, saved by love.

Irrepressible Betty Ramdin, her shy son Solo and their marvellous lodger, Mr Chetan, form an unconventional household, happy in their differences, as they build a home together. Home: the place where your navel string is buried, keeping these three safe from an increasingly dangerous world. Happy and loving they are, until the night when a glass of rum, a heart to heart and a terrible truth explodes the family unit, driving them apart.

Brave and brilliant, steeped in affection, 'Love After Love' is a novel full of heart which asks us to consider what happens at the very brink of human forgiveness, and offers hope to anyone who has loved and lost and has yet to find their way back.

'Restless, heart-breaking and intensely spellbinding, Love after Love will stay with you long after the last page.' - Andre Aciman

Born in Trinidad, Ingrid Persaud won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2017 and the BBC Short Story Award in 2018. 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 and Barbados.

Colin Grant is an author and also teaches creative non-fiction writing, most recently for Arvon and Sierra Nevada College. He is also a historian, Associate Fellow in the Centre for Caribbean Studies and producer for BBC Radio. He lives in southern England with Jo and their three children, Jasmine, Maya and Toby.