Cover image for My policeman
Title:
My policeman
Author:
Roberts, Bethan, 1973- author.
ISBN:
9780143136989

9780593511671
Publication Information:
[New York] :

Penguin Books,

2021.

©2012
Physical Description:
289 pages ; 21 cm
General Note:
"First published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK, 2012"

"Soon to be an original movie on Prime Video"--Cover.

Some copies are: Paperback movie tie-in, 2022. "Now an original movie : Prime Video"--Cover.
Abstract:
It is in 1950's Brighton that Marion first catches sight of Tom. He teaches her to swim, gently guiding her through the water in the shadow of the city's famous pier and Marion is smitten -- determined her love alone will be enough for them both. A few years later near the Brighton Museum, Patrick meets Tom. Patrick is besotted with Tom and opens his eyes to a glamorous, sophisticated new world of art, travel, and beauty. Tom is their policeman, and in this age it is safer for him to marry Marion and meet Patrick in secret. The two lovers must share him, until one of them breaks and three lives are destroyed. In this evocative portrait of midcentury England, Bethan Roberts reimagines the real life relationship the novelist E. M. Forster had with a policeman, Bob Buckingham, and his wife. My Policeman is a deeply heartfelt story of love's passionate endurance, and the devastation wrought by a repressive society.
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