Have been looking over ‘best of year’ film lists and noticed they did a British adaptation of this Yamada novel that I read a while back. It’s a fun breezy read - not a groundbreaking work.

But what struck me in reviews of the film ‘All of us strangers’ is the liberties they took. The novel is a ghost story about a man who is ultimately attacked by a woman whom he ignores - coupled with a sentimental story about reuniting with dead parents. The film transforms this into a redemptive homosexual love story set in Britain.

I guess that’s what novels are for these days. Just fodder for film scripts. But it’s quite a shift from the book. Don’t know if the film is any good - if anyone knows he could tell me. As I say - the novel was fun, had its charm - but is no masterpiece.