![]() ![]() Wisely, Roberts has gone back to the beginning, and Graceland charts a mother’s love for her only surviving son, and her son’s total devotion to his Mama. However, in every relationship there are at least two people – who would be other(s) be? I never thought that Roberts would apply these skills to the ‘King of Rock and Roll’ himself. ![]() I’d been expecting a fictional take on Elvis seen through those who worked with and for him – as in Louisa Hall’s recently published take on Oppenheimer in her book Trinity perhaps. ![]() Her strength is in depicting close relationships and almost forensically examining all the stresses and strains that exist within them, whilst always retaining the reader’s empathy for her main characters. Roberts’s previous novels have had varied settings: her last novel, Mother Island (reviewed here with an interview here) was a tale of child abduction tore apart family relationships her one before that, My Policeman, featured a love triangle set in 1950s Brighton. Having followed Bethan’s career for some years, as she hails from the town where I live, I wondered if Graceland referred to that ‘Graceland’. When I saw that Bethan Roberts’s new book had Elvis on the cover, I was instantly intrigued. ![]()
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