RE: Redefining 'Age Gap'

The late Beryl Bainbridge was always known to flirt with taboos in her novels. The point that I'm trying to make is that if a movie producer turns a book into a movie, they really do no justice to the author if they whitewash an essential characteristic of the plot. In the book Harriet Said, the female protagonist was 43 years apart in age difference from the older man. In the movie, they were only 5 years apart. Because the story is about a forbidden liaison between a teenage girl and an older man, it loses much of its effect when the movie producer does what is basically changing the plot.