EAN: 9781405971768

EVARISTO BERNARDINE MR LOVERMAN TV TIE-IN

NOW A MAJOR BBC TELEVISION DRAMA STARRING LENNIE JAMES    RECIPIENT OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD    A moving and funny novel about an exuberant  closeted family
man living as himself for the first time in over 60 years  from the Booker-prize winning author
of Girl  Woman  Other .    ***   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 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.    ***    'Transforms our
often-narrow perceptions of gay men in England' Independent    ' Brokeback Mountain with ackee
and saltfish and old people' Dawn French   'Heartbreaking yet witty  this is a story that
needed to be told' Observe

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