Many of David Nicholls’s novels, from One Day to Starter for Ten and Us, have been adapted into films and TV series over the years – but some moments in literature just don’t translate on screen.
Speaking at Hay Festival, the 57-year-old author revealed that there was one unfilmable scene in the 2006 adaptation of his book Starter for Ten, starring James McAvoy as a student who wins a place on a University Challenge quiz team, that ended up being an “expensive mistake”.
