My Policeman - Hardcover

Roberts, Bethan

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ISBN 10: 0701185848 ISBN 13: 9780701185848

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 2012

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From the moment Marion first lays eyes on Tom - her best friend's big brother, broad, blond, blue-eyed - she is smitten.And when he comes home from National Service to be a policeman, Marion, a newly qualified teacher, is determined to win him.Unable to acknowledge the signs that something is amiss, she plunges into marriage, sure that her love is enough for both of them...

But Tom has another life, another equally overpowering claim on his affections.Patrick, a curator at the Brighton Museum, is also besotted with his policeman, and opens Tom's eyes to a world previously unknown to him.But in an age when those of 'minority status' were condemned by society and the law, it is safer for this policeman to marry his teacher.The two lovers must share him, until one of them breaks and three lives are destroyed.

Unfolding through the dual narratives of Marion and Patrick, both writing about the man at the centre of their lives, this beautifully-told, painful, tragic story is revealed.It is a tale of wasted years, misguided love and thwarted hope, of how at a time when the country was on the verge of change so much was still impossible.Bethan Roberts has produced an intense and exquisitely raw yet tender novel, which proves her to be one of our most exciting young writers.

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Review:

Pitch perfect (Marie Claire)

The era and the seaside locale are beautifully rendered and observed, not least the social and sexual undercurrents of the time. The writing is assured and never over-reaches itself (Sunday Times)

Roberts skilfully evokes the atmosphere of late 1950s Brighton... The writing is fluid and tender (Guardian)

A moving story of longing and frustration (Observer)

Passionate... Captures the obsessive and destructive madness of sexual jealousy (Psychologies Magazine)

Book Description:

An exquisitely told, tragic tale of thwarted love

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