...but not the place where she set her novel.
From the brief piece in the Independent...
The author Victoria Hislop has shunned a Hollywood offer to adapt her best-selling debut novel The Island, about a leper colony off Crete, in favour of a much smaller fee from a Greek television network.
She was offered £300,000 by a US film studio for the rights to her novel, which follows a British woman tracing her ancestry to the island Spinalonga, off the coast of Crete.
However, worried about how her novel might be handled by Hollywood producers, and eager to give something back to the country in which it is set, Hislop instead opted for the Greek company Mega, which will turn her novel into a 26-part series, employing 300 local actors.
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