I considered starting with these words: I no longer want to kill you-because I really don’t-but then decided you would think this far too melodramatic. My Policeman was the 2012 Brighton City Read and an Irish Times Book of the Year. Her second novel The Good Plain Cook, published in 2008, was serialized on BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime and was chosen as one of Time Out’s books of the year. Robert's first novel The Pools was published in 2007 and won a Jerwood/Arvon Young Writers’ Award. Bethan Roberts has produced an intense and exquisitely raw yet tender novel, which proves her to be one of our most exciting young writers.The following is excerpted from Bethan Robert's newly reissued novel, My Policeman, soon to be a major motion picture. 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. 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.
The two lovers must share him, until one of them breaks and three lives are destroyed. 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. 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. 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. And, when he comes home from National Service to be a policeman, Marion, a newly qualified teacher, is determined to win him.
Print My Policeman: NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING HARRY STYLESįrom the moment Marion first lays eyes on Tom - her best friend's big brother, broad, blond, blue-eyed - she is smitten.
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