Bethan has worked in television, and has taught Creative Writing at Chichester University and Goldsmiths College, London.

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 4s Book at Bedtime and was chosen as one of Time Outs books of the year. Her first novel The Pools was published in 2007 and won a Jerwood/Arvon Young Writers Award. Louise Welsh, author of The Cutting Room, on The Good Plain Cook About the Author Bethan Roberts was born in Abingdon. The Observer Bethan Roberts is a fearless writer. The Guardian A moving story of longing and frustration. Publishers Weekly A humane and evocative portrait of a time when lives were destroyed by intolerance. Kirkus Reviews Complex and nuanced exploration of a love triangle.a moving depiction of human passions, frailties, and struggles. Vanity Fair Roberts beautifully captures the devastation of being unable or unwilling to live in ones truth.A melancholy story about love, loss, and unnecessary suffering. New York Times Book Review A powerful story of forbidden love, regret, and living as your true self. Its better than that, fraught and honest. Its a story as old as time, but, to my mind, its never been told so effectively, principally because Roberts invests us emotionally in both sides of the tug-of-war.Its not a happy story. Review Quotes An Irish Times Book of the Year Stunning.overdue in bing a sensation.Robertss messy collision of desires and drives leads to thwarted dreams, heartbreak, betrayal and a prison sentence. My Policeman is a deeply heartfelt story of loves 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 Toms 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 citys famous pier and Marion is smitten-determined her love alone will be enough for them both. New York Times Book Review It is in 1950s Brighton that Marion first catches sight of Tom. Book Synopsis Now a motion picture starring Harry Styles, Emma Corrin, and David Dawson, an exquisitely told, tragic tale of thwarted love. About the Book First published in Great Britain by Chatto and Windus, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK, 2012-Title page verso.

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