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MR LOVERMAN - BERNARDINE EVARISTO KARTONIERT (TB)

RECIPIENT OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD    Treat yourself to this joyful
big-hearted read from Booker Prize-winning novelist Bernardine Evaristo  part of our Penguin
Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics    'Bernardine Evaristo
can take any story from any time and turn it into something vibrating with life' Ali Smith  
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.   'Sublime' Telegraph    'Rip-roaring . . . she
says things about modern Britain that no one else does ' Guardian    'Brilliant ' Independent

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