"It was a much more demanding adaptation than anything I’ve ever done."

“It was a much more demanding adaptation than anything I’ve ever done. But after a while, a shape started to appear and a sense that actually it was important to treat the five books as a whole, rather than treat them as five very separate episodes, and to forge links between them rather than separate them out.”

- David Nicholls on adapting the Patrick Melrose novels by Edward St Aubyn