Bethan Roberts - Free Library Land Online - Cultural https://cultural.library.land/ ru Bethan Roberts - Free Library Land Online - Cultural DataLife Engine Graceland https://cultural.library.land/bethan-roberts/467871-graceland.html https://cultural.library.land/bethan-roberts/467871-graceland.html Graceland
What happens when your only son becomes The King of Rock 'n' Roll?From the moment she first holds him, after his twin brother is stillborn, Gladys Presley loves her son Elvis ferociously. She will be his greatest influence, the love of his life. She will be the one by his side, when Elvis is a boy and his father is in the jailhouse; as the family move from place to place, skirting poverty in Tupelo, Mississippi; as Elvis's obsession with music grows; as they move to Memphis and he begins his whirlwind rise to never-before-seen success... And he will love her back, even as his heart is turned by the blues, clothes and girls. But while he makes it big in Hollywood, brings audiences across the land to their knees and achieves unimagined wealth and fame, there is another story – of drinking and diet pills, loneliness and loss. While the heat and music of the American South in the 40s and 50s play in the background, a heartbreaking portrait of a...]]> Thu, 14 Nov 2019 14:01:22 +0200 The Pools https://cultural.library.land/bethan-roberts/482360-the_pools.html https://cultural.library.land/bethan-roberts/482360-the_pools.html The Pools
Middle England, mid-1980s. The kind of place where nothing ever happens. Except something has happened. A fifteen year old boy called Robert has been killed, down by the pools. And half a dozen lives will come unravelled.There's Kathryn and Howard, Rob's parents. Kath has been making the best of her second marriage after the love of her life died young. Howard has been clinging onto a family life he hardly expected to have. There's Joanna, the teen queen of nowheresville. She's been looking for a way out, escape from her parents' broken marriage. She thought Rob might take her away from all this, but lately she's started to think Rob might have other plans. And then there's Shane, with the big hands and the fixation on Joanna.Bethan Roberts' strikingly assured debut novel subtly reveals the tensions and terrors that underpin apparently ordinary lives, and can lead them to spiral suddenly out of control.]]> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:02:34 +0200 My Policeman https://cultural.library.land/bethan-roberts/116688-my_policeman.html https://cultural.library.land/bethan-roberts/116688-my_policeman.html My Policeman
It is in 1950s' Brighton that Marion first catches sight of Tom. He teaches her to swim in the shadow of the pier and Marion is smitten - determined her love will be enough for them both.A few years later in Brighton Museum Patrick meets Tom. Patrick is besotted with Tom and opens his eyes to a glamorous, sophisticated new world. Tom is their policeman, and in this age it is safer for him to marry Marion. The two lovers must share him, until one of them breaks and three lives are destroyed.]]> Wed, 11 Nov 2015 18:02:22 +0200 The Good Plain Cook https://cultural.library.land/bethan-roberts/124430-the_good_plain_cook.html https://cultural.library.land/bethan-roberts/124430-the_good_plain_cook.html The Good Plain Cook
When local girl Kitty Allen answers an advertisement looking for a "good plain cook," she has no idea what she's getting herself into. As the temperature rises through the long, hot summer, the dream begins to fall apart.Loosely based on a summer in the life of Peggy Guggenheim, The Good Plain Cook is beautifully written, gently funny, and genuinely touching.Bethan Roberts lives in Brighton in the south of England. Her debut novel The Pools was critically acclaimed.


About the Author

Bethan Roberts was born in Oxford and brought up in nearby Abingdon. She has MAs from Sussex and Chichester universities and teaches creative writing at Chichester and for the Open University. Roberts was awarded a Jerwood/Arvon Young Writers' Prize for her debut novel, The Pools.
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