Bernardine Evaristo's Mr Loverman is 'hilarious, poignant, clever, controversial and courageous in equal measure' (Dawn French)
Bernardine Evaristo is the Anglo-Nigerian award-winning author of
several books of fiction and verse fiction that explore aspects of
the African diaspora- past, present, real, imagined. Her novel
Girl, Woman, Other won the Booker Prize in 2019. Her writing also
spans short fiction, reviews, essays, drama and writing for BBC
radio. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University,
London, and Vice Chair of the Royal Society of Literature. She was
made an MBE in 2009. As a literary activist for inclusion
Bernardine has founded a number of successful initiatives,
including Spread the Word writer development agency (1995-ongoing);
the Complete Works mentoring scheme for poets of colour (2007-2017)
and the Brunel International African Poetry Prize
(2012-ongoing).
www.bevaristo.com
Bernardine Evaristo can take any story from any time and turn it
into something vibrating with life
*Ali Smith*
This riproaring, full-bodied riff on sex, secrecy and family is
Bernardine Evaristo's seventh book. If you don't yet know her work,
you should - she says things about modern Britain that no one else
does
*Guardian*
Transforms our often narrow perceptions of gay men in England . . .
Comical, agonising and, ultimately, moving
*Independent*
Evaristo has a lot going on in this unusual urban romance, but
beneath her careful study of race and sexuality is a beautiful love
story. Not many writers could have two old men having sexual
intercourse in a bedsit to a soundtrack of Shabba Ranks's Mr
Loverman and save it from bad taste, much less make it sublime. But
the hero of this book, and his canny creator, make everything taste
just fine
*Daily Telegraph*
An undeniably bold and energetic writer, whose world view is
anything but one-dimensional
*Sunday Times*
Audacious genre-bending, in-yer-face wit and masterly retellings of
underwritten corners of history are the hallmarks of Evaristo's
wit
*New Statesman*
Heartbreaking yet witty, this is a story that needed to be told
*Observer*
I loved this novel. Barrington is flamboyant, complex 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
*Guardian*
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