Mr Loverman / Bernardine Evaristo.

By: Evaristo, Bernardine, 1959- [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: CharnwoodPublisher: Leicester [England] : Thorpe, 2015Edition: Large print editionDescription: 352 pages (large print) ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781444823813 (hbk.)Subject(s): Families -- Fiction | Hackney (London, England) -- Social life and customs -- FictionGenre/Form: Large type books. Summary: Seventy-four-year-old flamboyant Hackney personality Barry is known for his dapper taste and fondness for retro suits. He is a husband, father, and grandfather. And for the past sixty years, he has been in a secret relationship with his childhood friend and soulmate, Morris... Carmel knows Barry is unfaithful, but suspects a parade of ladies rather than the truth. After her husband makes one too many late-night returns to their marital bed, Carmel finally instigates a new regime of absolute fidelity. Spurred into action by this declaration, Barry suggests to Morris that they stop the charade and spend their twilight years living together - but his lover refuses, still resenting Barry's failure to set up home with him two decades before. As a marriage goes into meltdown, all three parties have major choices to make...
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Seventy-four-year-old flamboyant Hackney personality Barry is known for his dapper taste and fondness for retro suits. He is a husband, father, and grandfather. And for the past sixty years, he has been in a secret relationship with his childhood friend and soulmate, Morris... Carmel knows Barry is unfaithful, but suspects a parade of ladies rather than the truth. After her husband makes one too many late-night returns to their marital bed, Carmel finally instigates a new regime of absolute fidelity. Spurred into action by this declaration, Barry suggests to Morris that they stop the charade and spend their twilight years living together - but his lover refuses, still resenting Barry's failure to set up home with him two decades before. As a marriage goes into meltdown, all three parties have major choices to make...

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