Books by Bethan Roberts
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English
review 1: My Policeman is a set in 1950’s Brighton, England, at time when homosexuality was a criminal offence. Never really friends, Marion and Patrick’s relationship hinges solely on the fact that they both love the same man, Tom. The story is recounted some 40 years later alternatively...
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review 1: This is a heartbreaking work of considerable talent. My policeman is told from the perspective of the two people who love him; Marion, who falls for the teenaged Tom on sight, and later marries him; and Patrick, a cultivated older man. Interestingly we never directly hear from To...
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English
review 1: Reading the blurbs on the front and back of the book I was expecting some sort of revelatory storytelling here. I was sorely disappointed and found myself simply reading this so I would finish as fast as possible. The story centres around Kitty who becomes a cook for the eccentri...