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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 29/08/2013
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ISBN: 9780241145784
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Length: 320 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm
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Weight: 225g
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RRP: £8.99
Mr Loverman
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From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other
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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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 29/08/2013
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ISBN: 9780241145784
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Length: 320 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm
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Weight: 225g
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RRP: £8.99
Reviews
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Bernardine Evaristo can take any story from any time and turn it into something vibrating with life
Ali Smith
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This riproaring, full-bodied riff on sex, secrecy and family is Bernardine Evaristo's seventh book. If you don't yet know her work, you should - she says things about modern Britain that no one else does
Guardian
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Transforms our often narrow perceptions of gay men in England . . . Comical, agonising and, ultimately, moving
Independent
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Evaristo has a lot going on in this unusual urban romance, but beneath her careful study of race and sexuality is a beautiful love story. Not many writers could have two old men having sexual intercourse in a bedsit to a soundtrack of Shabba Ranks's Mr Loverman and save it from bad taste, much less make it sublime. But the hero of this book, and his canny creator, make everything taste just fine
Daily Telegraph
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An undeniably bold and energetic writer, whose world view is anything but one-dimensional
Sunday Times
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Audacious genre-bending, in-yer-face wit and masterly retellings of underwritten corners of history are the hallmarks of Evaristo's wit
New Statesman
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Heartbreaking yet witty, this is a story that needed to be told
Observer
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A brilliant study of great characters in modern London
Independent
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Funny, brave . . . I loved Mr Loverman
Ian Thomson, Spectator
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Transforms our often narrow perceptions of gay men in England . . . Comical, agonising and, ultimately, moving
Independent
