My Policeman
Soon to be a film starring Harry Styles and Emma Corrin
(Sprache: Englisch)
Bethan Roberts was born in Oxford and grew up in nearby Abingdon. Her first novel The Pools was published in 2007 and won a Jerwood/Arvon Young Writers' Award. Her second novel The Good Plain Cook, published in 2008, was serialized on BBC Radio 4's Book at...
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Bethan Roberts was born in Oxford and grew up in nearby Abingdon. Her first novel The Pools was published in 2007 and won a Jerwood/Arvon Young Writers' Award. Her second novel The Good Plain Cook, published in 2008, was serialized on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime and was chosen as one of Time Out's books of the year. She also writes short stories (in 2006 she was awarded the Olive Cook short story prize by the Society of Authors) and has had a play broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Bethan has worked as a television documentary researcher, writer and assistant producer, and has taught Creative Writing at Chichester University and Goldsmiths College, London. She lives in Brighton with her family.Visit her website at www.bethanrobertswriter.com
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Bethan Roberts has published five novels and writes stories and drama for BBC Radio 4. Her books include The Good Plain Cook (Serpent's Tail, 2008), which was a Radio 4 Book at Bedtime; My Policeman (Chatto & Windus, 2012), the story of a 1950s policeman, his wife, and his male lover (soon to be a major Amazon Original movie starring Harry Styles and Emma Corrin); and Mother Island (Chatto, 2014), which received a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered prize. Her latest novel, Graceland, tells the story of Elvis Presley and his mother, Gladys. She also writes short fiction, for which she has won the Society of Authors' Olive Cook Prize and the RA Pin Drop Award. Bethan has taught Creative Writing at Chichester University and Goldsmiths College, London. She lives in Brighton with her family.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Bethan Roberts
- 2016, 352 Seiten, Maße: 12,8 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Random House UK
- ISBN-10: 0099555255
- ISBN-13: 9780099555254
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.10.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
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"Pitch perfect" Marie Claire "A gripping read" -- Viv Groskop Red "A humane and evocative portrait of a time when lives were destroyed by intolerance" Guardian "The era and the seaside locale are beautifully rendered and observed, not least the social and sexual undercurrents of the time" -- Elizabeth Buchan Sunday Times "Captures the obsessive and destructive madness of sexual jealousy" Psychologies
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A sensitive, sweeping novel Vogue
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