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Mr Loverman

Af: Bernardine Evaristo Engelsk Paperback

Mr Loverman

Af: Bernardine Evaristo Engelsk Paperback
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OUT NOW AS A MAJOR BBC TELEVISION DRAMA STARRING LENNIE JAMES

A moving and funny novel about an exuberant, closeted family man living as himself for the first time in over 60 years, from the Booker-prize winning author of Girl, Woman, Other.

***

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 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.

***

‘Transforms our often-narrow perceptions of gay men in England’ Independent

''Brokeback Mountain with ackee and saltfish and old people'' Dawn French

‘Heartbreaking yet witty, this is a story that needed to be told’ Observe

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OUT NOW AS A MAJOR BBC TELEVISION DRAMA STARRING LENNIE JAMES

A moving and funny novel about an exuberant, closeted family man living as himself for the first time in over 60 years, from the Booker-prize winning author of Girl, Woman, Other.

***

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 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.

***

‘Transforms our often-narrow perceptions of gay men in England’ Independent

''Brokeback Mountain with ackee and saltfish and old people'' Dawn French

‘Heartbreaking yet witty, this is a story that needed to be told’ Observe

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 320
ISBN-13: 9781405971768
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1405971762
Udg. Dato: 26 sep 2024
Længde: 22mm
Bredde: 197mm
Højde: 127mm
Forlag: Penguin Books Ltd
Oplagsdato: 26 sep 2024
Forfatter(e): Bernardine Evaristo
Forfatter(e) Bernardine Evaristo


Kategori London, Greater London


ISBN-13 9781405971768


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 320


Udgave


Længde 22mm


Bredde 197mm


Højde 127mm


Udg. Dato 26 sep 2024


Oplagsdato 26 sep 2024


Forlag Penguin Books Ltd

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