Ingrid Persaud was born in Trinidad. Her debut novel, Love After Love, won the Costa First Novel Award 2020, Author’s Club First Novel Award 2021, Indie Book Awards for Fiction 2021. She also won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2018 and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2017. Her next novel The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh is published by Faber on 25th April 2024. Follow her on Twitter @IngridPersaud.