THURSDAY 3 APRIL 2025
7PM to 8PM
Open to all. Hosted online using Zoom Meetings.
TICKETS: Free, booking required.
ACCESSIBILITY: Live subtitles are available using Zoom's Live Transcript function.
Mr Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo
Barrington Jedidiah Walker is dapper, funny and sexy 74 year old who leads a double life. Antiguan born and bred, he’s lived in Hackney since the sixties. He is a man truly in love - not with his wife of 50 years, but with his gay lover and childhood best friend, Morris. His marriage is breaking down, but is he brave enough to break away after a lifetime of fear and deception?
With Academic Director of Creative Writing at the Cambridge University Institute of Continuing Education, Yvonne Battle-Felton.
To aide the conversation, we have prepared three 'thinking points' to consider when reading Mr Loverman:
1. What are the motivations for Barry keeping his sexuality a secret for so long? And what part does London - which to many is seen as being a multi-cultural city - play as a backdrop to his silence?
2. What does the novel tell us about love?
3. What does the novel tell us about aging or growing older?
Mr Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo is available in paperback, hardback, audio and ebook formats, borrowable from public libraries or to purchase. To see what printed and digital copies are available from Cambridge University Libraries (borrowable by University staff and students), search iDiscover.
About The Really Popular Book Club
The Really Popular Book Club is Cambridge University Libraries' book group. Everyone is welcome to come and discuss a really popular book with the group, library staff, and an expert on the novel. Hosted on Zoom, the book club is completely free and open to everyone, people attend from all over the world. The Really Popular Book Club celebrates the huge range of books at Cambridge University Library. We have more than 8 million books and as a legal deposit library we keep a copy of every book published in the UK, and have done since 1710.
If you haven't attended one of our book club events before, you can find more information at www.lib.cam.ac.uk/bookclub.