'A powerful story of forbidden love, regret, and living as your true self.' - Vanity Fair It’s better than that, fraught and honest.” - New York Times Book Review

It’s a story as old as time, but, to my mind, it’s never been told so effectively, principally because Roberts invests us emotionally in both sides of the tug-of-war.It’s not a happy story. “Stunning.overdue in becoming a sensation.Roberts’s messy collision of desires and drives leads to thwarted dreams, heartbreak, betrayal and a prison sentence. My Policeman is a deeply heartfelt story of love's passionate endurance, and the devastation wrought by a repressive society. Forster had with a policeman, Bob Buckingham, and his wife. In this evocative portrait of midcentury England, Bethan Roberts reimagines the real life relationship the novelist E. The two lovers must share him, until one of them breaks and three lives are destroyed. Tom is their policeman, and in this age it is safer for him to marry Marion and meet Patrick in secret. Patrick is besotted, and opens Tom's eyes to a glamorous, sophisticated new world of art, travel, and beauty. A few years later near the Brighton Museum, Patrick meets 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. It is in 1950's Brighton that Marion first catches sight of Tom. “Stunning…fraught and honest.” - New York Times Book Review Now a motion picture starring Harry Styles, Emma Corrin, and David Dawson, an exquisitely told, tragic tale of thwarted love.

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