{"product_id":"mr-loverman-from-the-booker-prizewinning-author-of-girl-woman-other-9780241145784","title":"Mr Loverman From the Booker prizewinning author","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTreat a loved one to this joyful, big-hearted read from Booker Prize-winning novelist Bernardine Evaristo...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e''[\u003ci\u003eMr Loverman \u003c\/i\u003eis] \u003ci\u003eBrokeback Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e with ackee and saltfish and old people'' Dawn French\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE JERWOOD FICTION UNCOVERED PRIZE  2014\u003c\/b\u003e and\u003cb\u003e FERRO GRUMLEY AWARD FOR LGBT FICTION 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarrington 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis 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 mana\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBernardine Evaristo can take any story from any time and turn it into something vibrating with life\u003c\/b\u003e -- Ali Smith\u003cbr\u003eThis \u003cb\u003eriproaring, full-bodied riff on sex, secrecy and family\u003c\/b\u003e is Bernardine Evaristo's seventh book. If you don't yet know her work, you should - \u003cb\u003eshe says things about modern Britain that no one else does \u003c\/b\u003e * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTransforms our often narrow perceptions of gay men in England . . . Comical, agonising and, ultimately, moving \u003c\/b\u003e * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eEvaristo has a lot going on in this \u003cb\u003eunusual urban romance\u003c\/b\u003e, but beneath her \u003cb\u003ecareful study of race and sexuality is a beautiful love story\u003c\/b\u003e. Not many writers could have two old men having sexual intercourse in a bedsit to a soundtrack of Shabba Ranks's \u003ci\u003eMr Loverman\u003c\/i\u003e and save it from bad taste, much less make it \u003cb\u003esublime\u003c\/b\u003e. But the hero of this book, and his canny creator, make everything taste just fine * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eAn \u003cb\u003eundeniably bold and energetic writer, whose world view is anything but one-dimensional\u003c\/b\u003e * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAudacious genre-bending, in-yer-face wit and masterly retellings of underwritten corners of history are the hallmarks of Evaristo's wit \u003c\/b\u003e * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHeartbreaking yet witty, this is a story that needed to be told \u003c\/b\u003e * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI loved this novel.\u003c\/b\u003e Barrington is \u003cb\u003eflamboyant, complex\u003c\/b\u003e and in love with his childhood friend Morris. It really makes you think of all the stories, forbidden and forgotten, from the elders who made England their home -- Luan Goldie * Guardian *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47832701239639,"sku":"9780241145784","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780241145784.jpg?v=1710336982","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mr-loverman-from-the-booker-prizewinning-author-of-girl-woman-other-9780241145784","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}