From the Booker Prize-winning author ofGirl, Woman, Other, which has sold over 250,000 copies in Groves editions, a groundbreaking, hilarious novel set in London following two older gay Caribbean men reckoning with being closeted in a rapidly changing world

Bernardine Evaristo can take any story from any time and turn it into something vibrating with life.Ali Smith

One of Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristos most highly celebrated novels,Mr. Lovermanfollows a man named Barrington Jedidiah Walker, who is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he has lived in Hackney, London, for years. Flamboyant and wise-cracking, with dapper taste in retro suits and a fondness for Shakespeare, Barrington is a husband, father, grandfatherand also secretly gay, lovers with his childhood friend, Morris.

Barrys deeply religious and disappointed wife, Carmel, thinks he sleeps with other women rather than men. When their marriage goes into meltdown, Barry wants to divorce Carmel and live with Morris, but after a lifetime of fear and deception, will he manage to break away? With the wit and humanity that characterizedGirl, Woman, Other,Mr. Lovermanexplodes cultural myths and shows the extent of what can happen when people fear the consequences of being true to themselves.