Winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction
Evaristo’s confident control of the language, her vibrant use of humor, rhythm and poetry, and the realistic mix of Caribbean patois with both street and the Queen’s English…fix characters in the reader’s mind.
–New York Times Sunday Book Review
A Top Ten Favorite of the American Library Association’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table’s 2015 Over the Rainbow List
As a writer at the Guardian once proclaimed, if you don’t know Evaristo’s work, you should…the novel proves to be revolutionary in its honest portrayal of gay men…and Evaristo’s writing is both intelligible and compelling.
–Library Journal (starred review)
The writing is poetic, the characters are realistic and all sides are well portrayed.
–Huffington Post
Evaristo crafts a colorful look at a unique character confronting social normativity with a well-tuned voice and a resonant humanity.
–Publishers Weekly
In this vibrant novel, Evaristo draws wonderful character portraits of complex individuals as well as the West Indian immigrant culture in Britain.
–Booklist
Although Evaristo has always been an innovative stylist, her latest novel, the critically acclaimed, award-winning smash, Mr. Loverman, is her chef d’oeuvre; a masterful dissection of the life of a 74-year-old, British-Caribbean gay man.
–Huffington Post, feature on Bernardine Evaristo
Included in the Bay Area Reporter’s Pride Reading List: Prose & Poetry
Included in Baltimore Out Loud’s Pride Reading List
If the novelist’s job is to make sense of the world, Bernardine Evaristo’s entire oeuvre attests to her desire to upend preconceived notions of what is and isn’t impossible and reflect that mirror right back at her readers. Mr. Loverman is a powerful, morally rigorous and joyful novel and Bernardine Evaristo is a writer at the height of her imaginative powers.
–Huff Post Books
Barrington Jedediah Walker lives in London, but he also lives a lie…As his marriage self-destructs, Barrington sees an opportunity to be with the man he loves, but after such protracted misery in this comic, touching book, happiness seems distant and frightening.
–Village Voice
Mr. Loverman is a brilliant portrayal of a life that is only lived fully during the twilight years and the struggle within to get there…This is a book for everyone, not to be shelved into a grouping for just one sector of society.
–NEWZ4U.NET
Barrington is the kind of character that is naturally likeable; from his love of Shakespeare down to the tips of his boots, he oozes charm and charisma.
–Lit Reactor
It takes you and shakes you silly, leaving you stunned…Of the many books I’ve read so far this year, Mr. L
