And yet the play is very different from my novels.

But you will need to be able to support your opinion with evidence from the novel.

The television film includes several changes from the original novel.

In 2002, he wrote the script 24 Hours from his novel of the same name.

The situations in the film were not directly from the novel.

All of the stories were inspired from various foreign novels.

But these types are too familiar from his other novels.

Do you feel that the book is a departure, in any way, from your earlier novels?

It has a number of plot differences from the novel.

However, neither the movie nor the stage play used the character names from the novel.