Bernado’s film now exists. If the reader has already seen it, although much closer to the film than the first version, is not at all what is termed a novelisation.That is deliberate. And perhaps I can explain why by way of a whimsical little analogy. If one wears dark grey trousers, let’s say, and a jacket which is also grey, but not exactly the same grey, the result looks awkward and inelegant, almost as though one were hoping to pass the ensemble off as a suit. Far better to wear a jacket in a different colour altogether. So with a novel and its cinematic adaptation. So, too, with my novel and Bernado’s film. They may be twins but – just like my own fictional siblings, Théo and Isabelle – they’re not identical. —Gilbert Adair, 2003 (The Dreamers)

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