**Who will star in Mr Loverman?**

Alongside the previously announced Lennie James as Barrington Jedidiah Walker will be Olivier award winner Sharon D. Clarke who joins the cast as Carmel Walker, Barrington’s wife of five decades.

Ariyon Bakare (Life, His Dark Materials) plays Barrington’s best friend and soulmate, Morris De La Roux, while Tamara Lawrance (Get Millie Black, Time) and Sharlene Whyte (Small Axe, Stephen) star as Barrington and Carmel’s daughters, Maxine and Donna. Tahj Miles (Small Axe, Death In Paradise), will play Daniel, Donna’s son.

Keenan Munn-Francis (Black Dog) will star as a young Barrington opposite Gabin Kongolo (The Suspect) as a young Morris. Lauren Akosia also joins the cast as a young Carmel, known as Carmelita.

The series has been adapted by Nathaniel Price who has also worked on The Outlaws and Noughts + Crosses, so Evaristo’s novel is in excellent hands.

Mr Loverman: the BBC adaptation of Bernardine Evaristo’s novel is coming to screens soon