The Go-Between (1971 film) envisaged Alec Guinness and Margaret Leighton in the leads and employed Nancy Mitford to write a script. L.P. Hartley later claimed Korda had no real intention to make a film of the book - he kept the rights hoping to re-sell them at a profit. Hartley says "I was so annoyed when I heard of this that I put a curse on him and he died, almost the next morning." Joseph Losey was interested in filming the novel. He tried to get financing for a version in 1963 after "The Servant" and says Pinter wrote "two thirds of a script".
The Life (novel) "PT" (Peter Townend) and "Tink" bearing a resemblance to Wayne "Rabbit" Bartholomew. "The Guardian" wrote "If Winton is an aria, Knox is early Rolling Stones", ""The Life" confirms what "The Literary Review" has known all along – 'Knox is, quite simply, a fabulous writer.'" Christos Tsiolkas, author of the best selling novel "The Slap" wrote ""The Life", is alternately evocative and lacerating, tender and unflinching, a gloriously honest, brutal and moving story of a man who was at the top of his game and then pissed it all away". The Life (novel) The Life is a novel by the Australian