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Mr Loverman - From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other (Paperback)
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Mr Loverman - From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other (Paperback)
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Treat a loved one to this joyful, big-hearted read from Booker
Prize-winning novelist Bernardine Evaristo... '[Mr Loverman is]
Brokeback Mountain with ackee and saltfish and old people' Dawn
French WINNER OF THE JERWOOD FICTION UNCOVERED PRIZE 2014 and FERRO
GRUMLEY AWARD FOR LGBT FICTION 2015 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.
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