![]() ![]() At least when you are fully involved you can say it’s your fault if it doesn’t work, rather than being stuck in a weird limbo. That made me think ‘why not be properly connected to it?’, it doesn’t make sense not to be. In some ways it’s easier to hand it over to someone else as a clean break, but when I did that I didn’t realise it doesn’t protect you from still feeling involved, even though you haven’t been to any of the script meetings or been involved in any of the decisions. It wasn’t difficult when I was younger and was excited that it was actually happening, but now I would find it impossible. Is it hard to give up control of your novels to someone else to write the screenplay? That didn’t already exist, so I had to create it. I wanted to tell it as a slightly unusual thriller. I wanted to see this character and tell this love story. You adapt a novel when you have a strong attachment to it and want to bring it to life. I guess it was more that I wanted to do a particular story which didn’t already exist. Why did you decide to create a new story with 'London Spy' rather than adapting one of your existing novels? ![]()
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