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Mr Loverman: Coming soon as a major BBC television drama: 119 (Penguin Essentials, 119) Book

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 SmithBarrington 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' IndependentRead More

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  • 0241996570
  • 9780241996577
  • Evaristo, Bernardine
  • 18 May 2023
  • Penguin
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 320
  • 1
  • Book
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