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
