Mr Loverman by Bernadine Evaristo

Mr Loverman by Bernadine EvaristoBarrington 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

when the blaze of the moon 'annihilates history'

Bíonn timpistí go minic aige

he ran away to join the British Navy and sail around the world

and Odran believes that he is pledging his life to "the good

Before we cast old words aside

he traces the extraordinary pilgrimages we all might make in pursuit of home

Compiled by those who knew her best

These conversations

The international bestseller about life

but she isn't ready to let go

But what's the one thing that they have in common

Part memoir