Evening Class (novel) an undisclosed sum, when her publisher contacted the producers of the movie, Lars von Trier's company Zentropa. Although the film's writer-director Lone Scherfig had told the press that the film was based on her idea, executive producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen later admitted that she had made him aware of the similarities but that he had simply decided not to pay the original author. Evening Class (novel) Evening Class is a novel by Maeve Binchy. It was adapted as the award-winning film "Italian for Beginners" (2000) by writer-director Lone Scherfig, who failed to formally acknowledge the source, although at the very
Number 11 (novel) Meanwhile, Erica Wagner of the "New Statesman" concluded that while the novel could be seen as preachy, it makes good points about London under austerity measures. However, Robert Epstein of "The Independent" deplored that the novel was "too obvious, both in its targets and in their subsequent takedown". In "The London Evening Standard", Andrew Neather conceded that the novel was "first-class entertainment", but he lamented that it did not live up to a proper satire. Reviewing it for "The Guardian", Alex Clark called it "a political novel" as well as an "interrogation of the purposes and efficacy of humour in