Mr Loverman
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 ...
340 pages, 16 editions
English edition · First published 2013 by Charnwood · ISBN 9781444823813
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Editions
16 editions
English
- Mr Loverman · Charnwood · 2015 · ISBN 9781444823813 · 1 reader This page
- Mr. Loverman · Grove Press · 2025 · ISBN 9780802165244
- Mr. Loverman · Grove Press · 2025 · ISBN 9780802165251
- Mr Loverman · Penguin Books · 2024 · ISBN 9781405971768
- Mr Loverman · Penguin Books · 2023 · ISBN 9780241996577
- Mr Loverman · W. F. Howes Limited · 2014 · ISBN 9781471259067
- Mr. Loverman: A Novel · Akashic Books · 2014 · ISBN 9781617752896
- Mr. Loverman · Akashic Books · 2014 · ISBN 9781306773782
- Mr. Loverman: Library Edition · Blackstone Pub · 2014 · ISBN 9781481503426
- Mr Loverman · Howes Limited, W. F. · 2014 · ISBN 9781471260834
- Mr. Loverman: A Novel · Akashic Books · 2014 · ISBN 9781617752803
- Mr. Loverman: A Novel · Akashic Books · 2014 · ISBN 9781617752728
- Mr. Loverman · Blackstone Pub · 2014 · ISBN 9781481503419
- Mr. Loverman: A Novel · Akashic books · 2014 · ISBN 9781636140483
- Mr Loverman · Hamish Hamilton · 2013 · ISBN 9780241145784
- Mr. Loverman: A Novel · Penguin · 2013 · ISBN 9780241963913
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