On the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family, too. "The Long Call" began in the UK on Monday on ITV and debuts in North America on Thursday on BritBox.In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his estranged father’s funeral takes place. And so handing it to a director and a scriptwriter is just one stage further to that." Q: How does is feel seeing your books adapted for TV?Ĭleeves: "I'm not precious about the books at all, because I think that once a reader gets hold of them, they belong to the reader and not to me because the reader builds their own pictures in their head and they see things that are quite different from what I see. "I wanted to celebrate a gay marriage and I think they were just in my head." It was because the people who looked after me when Tim died, who scooped me up from the hospital and fed me wine and tea and actually are still there to support me, were a gay couple. So I went down and stayed with my oldest friend."Ĭleeves: "That wasn't any sort of attempt to do something different or think it was about time we had a gay central character in a in a commercial novel. I'd spent my teenage years there, loved it and still had friends there. "And where I ran away to was North Devon, because that was where I grew up. because of the sympathy and the pity and all the people who just wanted to talk about him and I just needed a bit to be away from that. Q: What was your inspiration for "The Long Call"?Ĭleeves: "(It) came from a time that happened just after my husband died and I wanted to run away from home. It is her third series of books to be dramatised for television.īelow are excerpts edited for length and clarity. In an interview with Reuters, Cleeves spoke about her inspiration for the story, the first in her "Two Rivers" series of novels, and seeing her work adapted for the screen.
The book, written after her husband Tim's death in 2017 and released in 2019, follows gay detective Matthew Venn as he returns to his old North Devon home, revisiting the community he was rejected from years ago and embarking on a major murder case. LONDON, Oct 28 (Reuters) - British crime writer Ann Cleeves turned to her teenage stomping ground on the southwest coast for inspiration for her novel "The Long Call", which airs in a new TV dramatisation from this week in the UK and North America.
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