![]() ![]() in the book Bad Boy it is Annie Cabot who is leading the team – because Banks is on holiday – when something goes wrong in the tv adaptation it is Annie who is investigating what went wrong and Banks is still around.Again, if anyone can clear this up, then I’d like to know. Sorry, I still haven’t a clue if this is taken from this particular book or which other book. ![]() In the – again very loose – tv adaptation of Piece of my heart shown last night, the father of Annie’s baby is revealed to be one David Hornsby, a lawyer, and it does indeed appear he and Annie have never been close. If anyone’s got the answer, do let us know. I don’t appear to have logged it here and if memory serves me right, it was a brief emotionally insignificant fling with someone off-stage, so to speak. This seems to be one of the more specific questions that come up time and again in leading people here to Lillabullero. And sorry, no: I can’t remember who the father of Annie Cabot’s baby is.Not that I’m not pleased you’re here! Feel free to stay and stick around. So many of the queries that I see lending up here on this page arising from the TV series may well not be found here because it is based purely on the books.The TV people are right, though, in picking up that she is the most compelling of Banks’s friends and colleagues in the books, but she first appears in the tenth book in the sequence, In a dry season, whereas Wednesday’s child, for instance, is only the sixth. Also, she has a fascinating back story – that she grew up in an artists/hippy commune in Cornwall is only a part of it – that the TV hasn’t touched on. Similarly Annie Cabbot is a constant in the TV shows though she only appears at a certain stage in the books.Unlike the books, which develop chronologically, the tv shows have been adapted randomly, so all sorts of character elements and development are at best obscured, like the state of Banks’ marriage and subsequent love life, and his relationship with his children.Wenesday’s child, for instance, may, like the book, start with a child abduction by phony social workers, but in the book it’s a younger girl and much that follows is just not in that book (though elements may – bear with me, I’m working on memory here – have crept in from other books, like the ice cream vans?) When the tv show says “Based on” a certain book it should say “Very loosely based on”.Given the increase in visits this page gets whenever the TV show airs, a few things probably need to be stressed (Feb, 2014): The height discrepency – Banks 5’9″, Tompkinson reportedly 6’2″ – is an odd casting decision, and we got very little of the sense of place – hardly a shot of the Yorkshire Dales and no views of Eastvale’s market square – all big components in what makes the books so compulsive. Mind, I can’t think of anyone else who fits with the book as well as Ken Stott did when they finally got Rebus right on screen. One carries a picture of a familiar character in a book and I’m afraid Stephen Tompkinson, who I’ve nothing against as an actor, is nowhere near mine. So I thought it might be worth delving into the back catalogue chronologically to see how things had developed from the beginning.Īnd fascinating it has proved too, bringing into focus all manner of things, like the evolutionary process behind the creation of a character (and what gets left behind), the growth of a writer’s confidence and his ongoing deployment of narrative techniques, not to mention the perils of incorporating technological change into the mechanism of a story.Īs it happens, Aftermath is where the September 2010 ITV television adaptions of the books starts. Banks is an interesting character – another music loving maverick cop in the established British tradition of Ian Rankin‘s Rebus and John Harvey‘s Resnick, but one from an English working class provincial background. ![]() ![]() I picked up on Peter Robinson’s series of novels featuring Alan Banks and set in the Yorkshire Dales fairly late in the game, after reading a review of Aftermath, and I have continued to welcome each new title with some enthusiasm since. ![]()
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