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
The Great Lover (novel) practitioners of the literary historical novel and that this is her best novel yet." Thomas Mallon of "The Washington Post", unlike other reviewers, gave a much more lukewarm assessment of the novel. He wrote, ""The Great Lover" is conscientious and good-hearted, but for all its class-crossing improbability, still rather timid." For Mallon, the novel does not treat Brooke during his most interesting part of his life: during the first World War, when he becomes a public figure. The Great Lover (novel) The Great Lover is a 2009 biographical novel by Jill Dawson. The novel follows the fictional Nell Golightly as