Ingrid Persaud on the real-life bogeyman of her new novel, coming late to writing and Trinidad’s affinity with Ireland
One of the chief delights in a book full of them is the Trinidad dialect of the characters: its rhythms and musicality. Photograph: iStock
Michael Palin on the loss of his wife of 57 years: ‘you feel you’ll never have a friend as close as that’ The most difficult thing was writing about women at a time when women didn’t have the choices that I’ve grown up with. And you want to slap them and tell them, ‘No, don’t do that!’ “Yes,” Persaud agrees, “and it’s really hard to do. Also because you don’t believe your readers would believe you.”
“I love writing in ,” she says. “It’s almost like I can’t help myself now. I can’t write anything straight any more. I think it’s because it’s my language. I no longer even go through the process of wondering if the reader is going to have an issue with it. I’m past apology, I’m past explanation. I’m just like: isn’t this language amazing? Why wouldn’t you want to use it? The quick-wittedness of it, the musicality, as you say. The whole world opens up in this very poetic way.
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