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.
Mr Loverman - Bernardine Evaristo
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