As such – as Mr Barrington Walker Esq himself might have acknowledged – it is very clever indeed. (Also an unabridged audio book from Whole Audiobooks on Amazon) ‘A brilliant study of great characters in modern London. 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.

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? Loverman is a brilliant portrayal of a life that is only lived fully during the twilight years and the struggle within to get there. 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. Born and bred in Antigua, he’s lived in Hackney since the sixties. She lives in London.A novel about a closet gay septuagenarian Antiguan-Londoner.īarrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded an MBE in 2009. Evaristo’s other awards include the EMMA Best Book, Arts Council Award and the Big Red Read Award. Mr Loverman is her second prose novel, after 2008’s Blonde Roots, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize and won the Orange Prize Youth Panel Award. British writer Bernardine Evaristo is the award-winning author of seven books including her new novel, Mr Loverman, about a 74 yr old Caribbean London man who is closet homosexual (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin, 2013 & Akashic USA, 2014). Bernardine Evaristo always dares to be different’ New Nation ‘Evaristo remains an undeniably bold and energetic writer, whose world view is anything but one-dimensional’ Sunday Times ‘Audacious genre-bending, in-yer-face wit and masterly retellings of underwritten corners of history are the hallmarks of Evaristo’s work’ New Statesman Bernardine Evaristo is the author of seven books including three critically acclaimed verse novels, Lara, The Emperor’s Babe and Soul Tourists.

Praise for Bernardine Evaristo: ‘One of Britain’s most innovative authors.

Mr loverman by bernardine evaristo