My Policeman

When Marion first lays eyes on Tom - her best friend's big brother, broad, blond, blue-eyed - she's smitten. And when he comes home from National Service to be a policeman, Marion, a newly qualified teacher, is determined to win him. But Patrick, a curator at the Brighton Museum, is also besotted with his policeman... Unable to acknowledge that something is amiss, and that there is another equally overpowering claim on Tom's affections, Marion plunges into marriage, sure that her love is enough for both of them... Through Marion's and Patrick's dual narratives, their painful, tragic story is revealed: a tale of wasted years, misguided love and thwarted hope, at a time when the country was on the verge of change and so much was still impossible.