The Time Traveler’s Wife was a great book. When the trailer for the movie came out, my wife and I turned to each other and groaned, “Oh no! They’ve turned it into a soppy, girly movie!”

But they haven’t. For a very complex plot, they’ve done a brilliant job. The squishy love stuff is important but they’ve not overdone it. In fact they were quite reserved on the romance, concentrating mainly on the time travelling predicament – or was I watching it from a boy’s point of view?

Various parts of the story were played down. There isn’t time to develop incidental characters. I often come away from films of books I’ve read feeling cheated, that the directors haven’t read the same book that I did, but The Time Travellers Wife really sticks to it and tells a very complicated story effortlessly.