Forster’s life-a distinguished gentleman, his love affair with a policeman, and the doting wife who cared for him until his last breath-that provided inspiration. The genesis of the novel can be traced to Roberts’s youth, specifically her obsession with James Ivory’s A Room with a View and its lush depictions of vacationing in Italy. Chronicling a trio of lovers, My Policeman is a reflection of insatiable desire and its repercussions. Following its initial 2012 United Kingdom release, the book has now been released in “15 or more translations has a whole new life that I never expected,” Roberts tells me, seated in front of an impressive wall-tall bookshelf in her Brighton home. It has taken nearly a decade and the announcement of a film adaptation starring one of today’s biggest pop stars for Bethan Roberts’s third novel, My Policeman, to be published in the United States.
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