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ONE OF STYLIST'S BEST NEW BOOKS FOR 2020

'It made me ugly cry' JESSIE BURTON
'Glorious' RACHEL JOYCE
'Spellbinding' ANDRÉ ACIMAN

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 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.

©2020 Ingrid Persaud (P)2020 Faber & Faber Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Heartfelt Feel-Good Inspiring Tear-jerking Thought-Provoking Funny
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I loved this book. I was wary about the author narrating as they rarely are good but she was amazing. The story was so touching with wonderful characters. A brilliant novel.

Heartbreakingly brilliant

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This book was beautifully written and narrated. The characters are wonderful. The story is thought provoking and entertaining at the same time. I highly recommend it.

Just a lovely story

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Not my normal listen, but so glad I did. I’m a 34 year old man who cried 3 times at the end of this book. Loved it. Thank you

So glad I gave this a listen

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I am a mixed Anglo-trini. The voice of this book felt like home, but the content.... that cut me deep. It’s disturbing, loving, heartbreaking and wonderful.

Wow, this rocked my world.

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For a first novel this represents a remarkably assured achievement and the author can be doubly commended for her own moving performance of the text.

It tells the tale of an unconventional family unit split between Trinidad and New York over a period of perhaps twenty years or so. The narrative switches between the viewpoints of the three main characters and all three threads seem (to me at least) to be perceptive and authentic.

There are moments of humour and light but also of heartbreak and you may shed a tear as you reach the conclusion. It will, however, enrich your life.

A Thing of Beauty

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