Ingrid Persaud, Short Fiction, Patricia Grace

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Mariella Frostrup talks to Ingrid Persaud about Love After Love, her stunning debut told from the multiple perspectives of an unconventional Indo-Trinidadian family. Having won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2018, Persaud explains why she evoked her memories of Trinidad in her first foray in to novel-length fiction. Continuing the theme, critic John Self picks some short fiction highlights, both classic and forthcoming, for those feeling paradoxically time-poor. And Patricia Grace explains the conception of her colossal but compact Potiki, recently re-issued. Stella Duffy tells this figurehead of Maori New Zealand writing.