Treat a loved one to this joyful,big-hearted read from Booker Prize-winning novelist Bernardine Evaristo...
Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua,he's lived in Hackney since the sixties. A flamboyant,wise-cracking local character with a dapper taste in retro suits and a fondness for quoting Shakespeare,Barrington is a husband,father and grandfather - but he is also secretly homosexual,lovers with his great childhood friend,Morris.
His deeply religious and disappointed wife,Carmel,thinks he sleeps with other women. When their marriage goes into meltdown,Barrington wants to divorce Carmel and live with Morris,but after a lifetime of fear and deception,will he manage to break away
Mr Loverman is a ground-breaking exploration of Britain's older Caribbean community,which explodes cultural myths and fallacies and shows the extent of what can happen when people fear the consequences of being true to themselves.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241145784Number of pages: 320Weight: 225 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 19 mm
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'Mr Loverman is hilarious,poignant,clever,controversial and courageous in equal measure. Loved,loved,loved it!'- Dawn French
'A brave and important story... I enjoyed it enormously'- Jonathan Kemp,author of London Triptych Bernardine
'Evaristo can take any story from any time and turn it into something vibrating with life'- Ali Smith
Bernardine Evaristo
An award-winning novelist,poet,dramatist,essayist and activist,Bernardine Evaristo is the joint winner of The Booker Prize 2019 for Girl,Woman,Other and the first Black female author to top the fiction chart in the UK.
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