![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This works best when the ideas are submerged in action: too often, Evaristo gives her characters sharply inked, directly opposing opinions to bounce back and forth, as with a dinner-table discussion on what the Bible has to say about homosexuality, or an argument about feminism in an adult education class. It's a fertile topic, and Evaristo plunges into a debate on everything from race, gender, sexuality and religion to the gentrification of multicultural London neighbourhoods. A t 74, Barrington "Barry" Walker, a Caribbean transplant to Stoke Newington in London with a church-going wife and two grown-up daughters, is "still spruced up and sharp-suited with a rather manly swagger", still working "a certain je ne sais whatsit." He's also been having a secret affair with another elderly man, Morris de la Roux, since they were both teenagers in Antigua, and coming clean to his family is unthinkable. ![]()
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