The Beach (novel) only day-dream about". "The Beach" was made into a film in 2000, directed by Danny Boyle and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Robert Carlyle, Virginie Ledoyen and Guillaume Canet. The novel was at one point reportedly being considered for adaptation to a television series by "The Secret Circle" developer Andrew Miller. The Beach (novel) The Beach is a 1996 novel by English author Alex Garland. Set in Thailand, it is the story of a young backpacker's search for a legendary, idyllic and isolated beach untouched by tourism, and his time there in its small, international community of backpackers. In 2000,
The Man Who Pays The Piper type by the scruff of its neck." The theatricalism referred to in both reviews has to do with the characters other than Daryll who are portrayed more as caricatures than fully developed portraits. Morgan wrote that "Stern has introduced to her play characters that her taste and judgment would have excluded from a novel." Reviews of the 2013 production sounded similar notes. For "The Independent", Paul Taylor wrote, "There's often too little narrative impetus but the problems the piece raises are still pertinent." Laura Thompson, reviewing for "The Telegraph" wrote, "Stern is no Ibsen, and she rarely says something once