![]() ![]() The story world I created is right here, in front of me. I look around me and take in the set: a London choked with grief and longing for hope lost faces remembering lost loves. ![]() I have no expectations, partly because this is a genuine first for me, but mostly because I believe that, as a novelist, once you have sold the dramatic rights to your work, it is your professional duty to stand back and let the producers, directors and actors do their work. Is the production as I envisaged? Does it meet my approval? My expectations? How do I feel about this drama to which my name will be permanently attached? Everyone I meet on the set wants to know. ![]() Nevertheless, in full understanding of the fact that ghost stories are as much about the living as they are the dead, I am about to commit the egotistical sin of immortalising myself by making a silent cameo appearance in the opening scene. I have not written the intense, vivid script I have not had any input into the splendidly judged casting decisions in fact, my involvement as “creative consultant” has been fairly limited. The drama, which will go out on ITV this Christmas, has been in development by Bentley Productions since before my novel was published by Quercus in 2013. In a life-changing experience that feels almost miraculous, I am thrilled and – still faintly disbelieving – to be visiting the set of the television adaptation of my debut novel, The Ghost Hunters. No, I haven’t just encountered a spirit from “the other side”. Immediately I think this is an inspired piece of casting. ![]()
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