Listen to bestselling audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. As such – as Mr Barrington Walker Esq himself might have acknowledged – it is very clever indeed. Listen to Mr Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo with a free trial. (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? 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. Loverman By: Bernardine Evaristo A groundbreaking, hilarious novel about two elder gay Caribbean men coming to terms with being closeted in a changing world. Born and bred in Antigua, he’s lived in Hackney since the sixties. A novel about a closet gay septuagenarian Antiguan-Londoner.īarrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life.
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