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Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney since the sixties. A flamboyant, wise-cracking local character with a dapper taste in retro suits and a fondness for quoting Shakespeare, Barrington is a husband, father and grandfather - but he is also secretly homosexual, lovers with his great childhood friend, Morris.

His deeply religious and disappointed wife, Carmel, thinks he sleeps with other women. When their marriage goes into meltdown, Barrington wants to divorce Carmel and live with Morris, but after a lifetime of fear and deception, will he manage to break away?

This is a book like no other, funny, moving, warm, fristrarting. The full spectrum of humanity. And a protagonist who is 74 and loving sex, lots of sex, just not with his wife.

I loved it. And thoroughtly enjoyed exploring themes in it with Pim Dhahan