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  • Published: 2 February 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448130986
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352

My Policeman

NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING HARRY STYLES




The stunning tie-in edition of My Policeman showcasing artwork from the highly anticipated film adaptation starring Harry Styles, Emma Corrin and David Dawson

Discover the exquisitely told tragic tale of thwarted love behind the major new film adaptation

It is in 1950s' Brighton that Marion first catches sight of the handsome and enigmatic Tom. He teaches her to swim in the shadow of the pier and Marion is smitten - determined her love will be enough for them both.

A few years later in Brighton Museum Patrick meets Tom. Patrick is besotted with Tom and opens his eyes to a glamorous, sophisticated new world.

Tom is their policeman, and in this age it is safer for him to marry Marion. The two lovers must share him, until one of them breaks and three lives are destroyed.

'A sensitive, sweeping novel' VOGUE

'A powerful story of forbidden love, regret, and living as your true self' VANITY FAIR

'Tense, romantic, smart...I loved it. Devoured it!' RUSSELL T. DAVIES

'A powerful story of love, shame and jealousy' MOHSIN ZAIDI

  • Published: 2 February 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448130986
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352

About the author

Bethan Roberts

Bethan Roberts was born in Oxford and grew up in nearby Abingdon. Her first novel The Pools won a Jerwood/Arvon Young Writers' Award. 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. Her third novel, My Policeman, was picked as the 'City Reads' book for Brighton. Her most recent novel is Mother Island, winner of a Jerwood/Fiction Uncovered Prize 2015. Bethan lives in Brighton with her family.

www.bethanrobertswriter.com

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Praise for My Policeman

'I loved it. Devoured it! A wonderful read. Tense, romantic, smart; a beautiful portrait of a seaside town poised at an exact moment in history, with people trapped by laws and mores'

Russell T. Davies (on Instagram)

Pitch perfect

Marie Claire

A gripping read

Viv Groskop, Red

A humane and evocative portrait of a time when lives were destroyed by intolerance

Guardian

The era and the seaside locale are beautifully rendered and observed, not least the social and sexual undercurrents of the time

Elizabeth Buchan, Sunday Times

A moving story of longing and frustration

Observer

Captures the obsessive and destructive madness of sexual jealousy

Psychologies

Roberts gives us two strong, absorbing voices, whose competing claims on our sympathies...make My Policeman a satisfyingly taut and involving read

Times Literary Supplement

Roberts deploys her research carefully, honing a novel with a strong period feel and a sprightly structure

Independent

An amazing read

Latest 7

Roberts’ sharp, evocative prose renders this simple story complex, enthralling and compelling

Anne Hill, Sussex Life

This spiky portrait of love makes for a gripping read

Independent

This spiky portrait of love makes for a gripping read

Emma Hagestadt, Independent Radar

A heartbreaking examination of lives and love

Diva Magazine

A powerful story of sexual jealousy and longing, My Policeman is also a heartbreaking examination of lives and love that has gone to waste in an era in which homosexuality was a prosecutable offence

DIVA Magazine

A sensitive, sweeping novel

Vogue

A powerful story of forbidden love, regret, and living as your true self

Vanity Fair

A powerful story of love, shame and jealousy

Mohsin Zaidi

Stunning...fraught and honest

New York Times Book Review

A gripping read

Viv Groskop, Red

A humane and evocative portrait of a time when lives were destroyed by intolerance

Guardian

A moving story of longing and frustration

Observer

'I loved it. Devoured it! A wonderful read. Tense, romantic, smart; a beautiful portrait of a seaside town poised at an exact moment in history, with people trapped by laws and mores'

Russell T. Davies (on Instagram)

Pitch perfect

Marie Claire

A heartbreaking examination of lives and love

Diva Magazine

A powerful story of sexual jealousy and longing, My Policeman is also a heartbreaking examination of lives and love that has gone to waste in an era in which homosexuality was a prosecutable offence

DIVA Magazine

An amazing read

Latest 7

Captures the obsessive and destructive madness of sexual jealousy

Psychologies

Roberts deploys her research carefully, honing a novel with a strong period feel and a sprightly structure

Independent

Roberts gives us two strong, absorbing voices, whose competing claims on our sympathies...make My Policeman a satisfyingly taut and involving read

Times Literary Supplement

Roberts' sharp, evocative prose renders this simple story complex, enthralling and compelling

Anne Hill, Sussex Life

The era and the seaside locale are beautifully rendered and observed, not least the social and sexual undercurrents of the time

Elizabeth Buchan, Sunday Times

This spiky portrait of love makes for a gripping read

Independent, i

This spiky portrait of love makes for a gripping read

Emma Hagestadt, Independent Radar

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