My Policeman

the long version

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