1: BoyBoy's Story

Available for 149 days

We kick off a new short story series by the award-winning author of 'Love After Love', Ingrid Persaud. Set on an everyday street in Port of Spain, Trinidad, 'The Chronicles of Burke Street' follows the lives and loves of its unusual residents. Burke Street might seem like an ordinary street, but behind its closed doors lurk secrets, superstitions and barely concealed lies. Today, in 'BoyBoy's Story', after the death of his mother, a young man is convinced that he's being haunted by a strange spirit ... Writer: Ingrid Persaud is the winner of the 2018 BBC National Short Story Award, and her novel Love After Love won the 2020 Costa First Novel Award. Reader: Damian Lynch Producer: Justine Willett