Mr Loverman / Bernardine Evaristo.

  • Evaristo, Bernardine, 1959-
Date:
2020
  • Books

About this work

Description

Barrington Jedidiah Walker is 74 and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney since the 60s. 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, lover to 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?

Publication/Creation

[London, United Kingdom] : Penguin Books, 2020.

Physical description

306 pages ; 20 cm

Reproduction note

Reprint. Originally published: London : Hamish Hamilton, 2013.

Awards note

Ferro-Grumley Award, 2015.

Type/Technique

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    TPO.AI
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780241145784
  • 0241145783