This year has, so far, not been the best of years. I very much fear, however, it is about to get worse. Nothing is as chilling as the thought that someone is about to muck up a book that you love with a film or television adaptation.
And so, ever since I learned that this is the week that an adaptation of A Suitable Boy will start airing on BBC One, I have lived in fear. Well, there’s a pandemic on, so we are all living in fear more or less, but let’s say the fear has intensified. Adaptations of a revered book can be a disaster. Much depends, of course, on who is writing …
