Ok part 2 guess the book! Or play? Or song?

[Seasawride]

But only fair you say which it is at the beginning

Film

I met my fiancee when he worked at my father's garage...but then he decided to change careers and won't set the date until he's established in his new profession. I only wish he'd let me help him so that we can get on with a lifetime of bickering, pool playing and discussing the differences between a 1964 Buick Skylark and a 1963 Pontiac tempest.

@Yambabe Mort?

Book and Film

I first met my husband when I was 6 and he was 28. He was married when I met him. He is a lock pick and a thief. Our relationship has struggled because he can never stay in one place and I am always waiting for him to come back.

Kiki The Time Traveler's Wife?

@MissLingoss yes!

More clues for this one:

“DH and I have 3 children. DS1 and DD seem fine but I’m worried about DS2. I can’t really feel as much of a connection to him as my third child. I am proud of him but also he reminds me of what this society has become. He’s gone off to a kind of boarding school and doesn’t want to see any of the family except DD. Also he killed 2 people by the age of 10. AIBU to worry about this?”

From another character’s POV:

The adults in my life are always trying to control me. I’m exceptionally smart for my age and I understand that sometimes you have to do the wrong thing for the right reason. However I wouldn’t have gone as far as genocide if I hadn’t been deceived.

Blimey Oil I, I don't know your book but I'm slightly terrified!

Kiki, weird autocorrect

@Mipmipmip what is?

It is meant to say genocide.

Hopefully not too cavalier a use of it as it is technically correct in the novel but not meaning to offend.

I’m thinking maybe nobody has read this book though so if nobody gets it now I’ll leave it be!

I'm intrigued by yours Kiki bit I have definitely never read it!

Kiki is it Ender's Game?

(may have made an account just to guess this so hoping I'm not going to look like a tit if I'm wrong!)

5LeadClover

The difference is positraction. ‘My Cousin Vinny’.

TV

I'm a cop, I'm good at my job, but can be a bit of arsehole and all my superiors end up hating me because I undermine them

I'm divorced and have two wonderful boys

Recently whilst out with my children I spotted a suspect who has proven quite elusive

I got them to tail him as a "game" and then lost them

AIBU to tell my colleagues my wife is a cunt for threatening to withhold access and taking me to court?

I'll do it from other POVs if no one gets it

I'm a cop, I'm good at my job, but can be a bit of arsehole and all my superiors end up hating me because I undermine them

That describes most fictional cops, doesn't it?

No takers for mine on p.7?

I also once took a drugged up informant to my child's football game - ex wife had a face on then too

I'm a cop, I'm good at my job, but can be a bit of arsehole and all my superiors end up hating me because I undermine them

It was McNulty, the suspect was Stringer Bell, but I don't recall the series of The Wire that it was. (I had a brief moment thinking it was Luther because of Idris Elba.)

@Violetglace you wouldn’t look like a tit- but yes, you got it!

Book
I'm an old woman living in Norfolk - round about Holt and Blajeney- on the marshes. It's very damp in my run down house and sometimes I get cut off by the tides.
My memory isn't great but I remember a boy, and a chicken house that got burned down.
I eat a lot of samphire.
I wrote my story down in a book and a real life local authority did me a picture for the cover. Her name is Angela Lewin.
Disclaimer I read this book about 10 years ago and cannot remember the name or the author even though I can remember the cover illustrator. So if anyone does recognise it I'll be very grateful as I'd like to read it again

Not a real life local authority - a real life local ARTIST!

@MissLingoss no sorry the only thing I can think of is the Talented Mr Ripley which I saw a long time ago because I think I remember a yacht but I don’t think that’s right.

@LetticeFortescue haha I did wonder I was imagining someone from the local council coming out to take a photo it’s not familiar I’m afraid but I hope someone knows it!

kiki, no, it's older than that.

If no-one gets it this evening, I'll give a clue. It's possibly not read much these days, but I should think someone here knows it.