Mr Loverman

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

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

Transforms our often narrow perceptions of gay men in England . . . Comical, agonising and, ultimately, moving

Independent

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

Luan Goldie, Guardian