My Policeman by Bethan RobertsMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
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This is the fourth book from our Sister Book Club.
Ale wanted to read this book because Harry Styles is gonna be in the movie.
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| Thursday, June 3, 2021 at 8:58 PM |
Chapter 2
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I let Sylvie copy my homework, and she played me her records: Nat King Cole, Patti Page, Perry Como.
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Together, under our breath, we sang Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger as we stood at the back of the queue for the vaulting horse, letting all the other girls go before us.
Chapter 5
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Tom put on a Tommy Steele record and shouted, ‘Who’s for another?’ while I made my way to Sylvie’s room.
Chapter 8
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Whistling Bizet wherever I went. I knew. That’s what it was. I just knew. It was only a matter of time.
Chapter 9
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Then Sarah Vaughan singing ‘The Nearness of You’.
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hummed along to ‘Danny Boy’, and, in return, he danced in my arms.
Chapter 13
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‘Stormy Weather’ coming from the Oriental boy on the piano.
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‘And how are we?’ she asked. ‘Oh, tolerable.’
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Me
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I walked fast but felt no sense of exertion, and may even have whistled ‘Stormy Weather’.
Chapter 15
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I took Mother her cheese on toast in the conservatory. The sun had warmed the furniture and I could smell the earth of the large potted fern by the door. She was asleep in her wicker chair–her head hadn’t drooped, but it was resting at an angle I recognised. She didn’t stir, so I stood for a moment and looked out at the garden. Some roses were still hanging on and there were a few dried-out purple chrysanthemums, but the overall impression was one of bareness. We moved here when I was sixteen, so I don’t feel very attached to the place. It was Father’s way of starting again after the incident with the girl who worked at his tailor’s, whom he was careless enough to impregnate. Mother cried for a week, so by way of atonement he allowed her to move back to Surrey.
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Literally ale
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‘Tricky’s not made that way.’ Amen to that.
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Ale liked that part because she thought it sounded funny.
Chapter 24
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When he was gone, I put Quando me’n vo’ soletta per la via on the record-player.
Chapter 26
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I wondered how anyone could bring themselves to eat such a foul-smelling substance. To me it smacked of nothing so much as overripe sweat.
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That’s my da when he eats stinky cheese
Chapter 28
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The high sun felt like a slap in the face, I remember,
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That’s Arizona for ya 👏🏼
Part V
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Anna Karenina
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