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
