6 Best romance books like Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud

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Love After Love

By: Ingrid Persaud

4.07

Format: 409 pages, Paperback

Meet the Ramdin-Chetan family: forged through loneliness, broken by secrets, saved by love. Irre…

"Miss Betty, relaxing is not a crime. Live a little. Best to do things while you still have your own teeth in your mouth."

-Ingrid Persaud, Love After Love

If you liked the romance plot in Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud , here is a list of 6 books like this:

1. I Do Not Come to You by Chance

By: Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

4.12

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

A deeply moving debut novel set amid the perilous world of Nigerian email scams, I Do Not Come to Y… read more

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2. You Are Here

By: David Nicholls

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more

Similar categories in David Nicholls's You Are Here book and Ingrid Persaud's Love After Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

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3. This Could Be Everything

By: Eva Rice

3.83

Format: None pages, Audiobook

From the author of ‘modern vintage classic’ The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets comes a feel-good nosta… read more

Similar categories in Eva Rice's This Could Be Everything book and Ingrid Persaud's Love After Love

  • audiobook
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. In Memoriam

By: Alice Winn

4.53

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more

Similar categories in Alice Winn's In Memoriam book and Ingrid Persaud's Love After Love

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"It’s intimate."

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Call me Sidney,"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Where’s the rest of it?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Do you believe in magic?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

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5. A Terrible Kindness

By: Jo Browning Wroe

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

When we go through something impossible, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them . . . … read more

Similar categories in Jo Browning Wroe's A Terrible Kindness book and Ingrid Persaud's Love After Love

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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6. Love After Love

By: Ingrid Persaud

4.07

Format: 409 pages, Paperback

Meet the Ramdin-Chetan family: forged through loneliness, broken by secrets, saved by love. Irre… read more

Similar categories in Ingrid Persaud's Love After Love book and Ingrid Persaud's Love After Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • novels
  • queer
"Miss Betty, relaxing is not a crime. Live a little. Best to do things while you still have your own teeth in your mouth."

-Ingrid Persaud, Love After Love

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7. Black Butterflies

By: Priscilla Morris

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more

Similar categories in Priscilla Morris's Black Butterflies book and Ingrid Persaud's Love After Love

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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8. The Mermaid of Black Conch

By: Monique Roffey

3.89

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

In 1976, David is fishing off the island of Black Conch when he comes upon a creature he doesn't ex… read more

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  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The sea was the giant woman of the planet, fluid and contrary."

-Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch

"Womanhood was a dangerous business if you didn't get it right."

-Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch

"It was the magic that music makes, the song that lives within every creature on earth, including mermaids."

-Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch

"Life change quick boy. Another planet so. Later I saw that change came as change always comes, from a chain of events with a long history, too long to see from back to front, till it come"

-Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch

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9. Trespasses

By: Louise Kennedy

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more

Similar categories in Louise Kennedy's Trespasses book and Ingrid Persaud's Love After Love

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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10. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way

By: Rebecca Wait

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Wait's I’m Sorry You Feel That Way book and Ingrid Persaud's Love After Love

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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11. The God of Good Looks

By: Breanne Mc Ivor

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

This entertaining, transportive, and luminous debut novel follows a young Trinidadian woman finding… read more

Similar categories in Breanne Mc Ivor's The God of Good Looks book and Ingrid Persaud's Love After Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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12. Nightbloom

By: Peace Adzo Medie

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Peace Adzo Medie, author of Reese’s Book Club pick His Only Wife , returns with a moving novel abou… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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13. The List

By: Yomi Adegoke

3.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."

-Yomi Adegoke, The List

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14. People Person

By: Candice Carty-Williams

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Dimple Pennington knew of her half siblings, but she didn't really know them. Five people who don't… read more

Similar categories in Candice Carty-Williams's People Person book and Ingrid Persaud's Love After Love

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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15. The Island of Forgetting

By: Jasmine Sealy

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

How does memory become myth? How do lies become family lore? How do we escape the trauma of the pas… read more

Similar categories in Jasmine Sealy's The Island of Forgetting book and Ingrid Persaud's Love After Love

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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16. Pleasantview

By: Celeste Mohammed

4.28

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Coconut trees. Carnival. Rum and coke. To many outsiders, these idyllic images represent the suppos… read more

Similar categories in Celeste Mohammed's Pleasantview book and Ingrid Persaud's Love After Love

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. The Mother Act

By: Heidi Reimer

4.18

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Set against the sparkling backdrop of the theater world, this propulsive debut follows the complica… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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18. A Trace of Sun

By: Pam Williams

3.73

Format: 389 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Don’t go Mammy please.’ Stuttered words filled her ears, sent frissons of guilt through her as she… read more

Similar categories in Pam Williams's A Trace of Sun book and Ingrid Persaud's Love After Love

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. Sorrow and Bliss

By: Meg Mason

4.09

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

This novel is about a woman called Martha. She knows there is something wrong with her but she does… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"We hugged each other like two people who had no practical experience of embracing, had only taught themselves the theory from a poorly worded manual."

-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss

"I have been unbearable but I have never been unloved. I have felt alone but I have never been alone and I've been forgiven for the unforgiveable things I have done."

-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss

"I have never understood why people think of champagne as celebratory rather than medicinal. (...) Surely the only time one needs one's blood effervesced is when life is utterly flat."

-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss

"After Barbara’s Contentious Divorce, Everyone Felt Genuinely Hurt, Including Justifiably Kin Left Melancholically Noting Or Perhaps Questioning Rumours Suggesting That, Unannounced, Vincent’d Wed an …"

-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss

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20. The House of Plain Truth

By: Donna Hemans

3.50

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A novel of fractured family and the search to protect–or discard–what unites them, this story trace… read more

Similar categories in Donna Hemans's The House of Plain Truth book and Ingrid Persaud's Love After Love

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Dominoes

By: Phoebe Mcintosh

3.76

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

A tender and provocative debut novel about a mixed-race British woman who makes the shocking discov… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook

20 Top fiction books like Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud

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You Are Here

David Nicholls

4.08

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This Could Be Everything

Eva Rice

3.83

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In Memoriam

Alice Winn

4.53

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A Terrible Kindness

Jo Browning Wroe

4.30

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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

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The Wren, the Wren

Anne Enright

3.55

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Alice Winn

4.53

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Children of Paradise

Camilla Grudova

3.49

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