The narrative toggles between the 1957 diary entries of Patrick Hazlewood, wealthy and educated, who encounters a hunky patrolman named Tom Burgess on the Brighton streets, and the scribbled reflections in 1999 of Marion, Tom’s wife, who has taken Patrick into her home to care for him after a debilitating stroke. Roberts’s lachrymose gay novel is nine years overdue in becoming a sensation here. Less a love triangle than a battle of dueling guitars, the novel concerns a handsome closeted police officer, his gentle, long-suffering wife and his secret lover, an erudite, slightly older museum curator.
Certainly that is the case with “My Policeman,” at least for American audiences it took the flurry of interest in the upcoming film for Roberts’s novel - her third of five to date - to be published in the United States. Decked out in 1950s leisure wear, they were shooting a scene for their upcoming film, “My Policeman,” based on Bethan Roberts’s stunning 2012 novel.įor all the hand-wringing that film and television have eclipsed literary fiction at the center of the cultural conversation, it must be acknowledged that occasionally cinema saves novels from mildewed obscurity. My Policeman is a deeply heartfelt story of love's passionate endurance, and the devastation wrought by a repressive society.Maybe you saw the paparazzi shots that leaked last spring: Harry Styles and Emma Corrin, two of Britain’s most feverishly obsessed-over young stars, hanging out together on a pebbly beach in the resort town of Brighton. 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 Soon to be a motion picture starring Harry Styles, Emma Corrin, and David Dawson, an exquisitely told, tragic tale of thwarted love. Get My Policeman for 20% off online or over the phone during April and May! Join the Gay Men's Reading Group for a discussion of My Policeman by Bethan Roberts.
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