Bernadine Evaristo's award-winning 2013 novel has been turned into an eight-part BBC drama.
Bernardine Evaristo's ground-breaking novel Mr Loverman was released in 2013, telling the story of a married 74-year-old Antiguan-born Londoner who has been having a secret love affair with his best friend for the past 60 years.
Finding herself inside a world she originally created on paper appears to suit a person who says her favourite thing about writing is being able to "inhabit" her characters. Having grown up in London, she has featured different parts of the city in many of her stories, including Hello Mum, The Emperor’s Babe, and Girl, Woman, Other - for which she jointly won the Booker Prize in 2019.
Hackney has continued to change in the 11 years since the book was published, but the novelist believes little would be different about Barrington, Carmel and Morris if she had written the novel now, given they live "in a bubble".
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