She nurtures a secret crush on him for years, and is frustrated that even after they become friends as young adults - by then Tom has become a policeman and Marion is a schoolteacher - Tom doesn't seem interested in anything more from their relationship. In 1950s Brighton, England, a teenage girl named Marion falls in love with her best friend Sylvie's older brother, Tom. 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. 'aught and honest.' - New York Times Book Review It is in 1950's Brighton that Marion first catches sight of Tom. Soon to be a motion picture starring Harry Styles, Emma Corrin, and David Dawson, an exquisitely told, tragic tale of thwarted love.

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