Don't they ever stop migrating?

Adaptations Book Club meets monthly to try to answer the age old question….is the book truly better?

We are wrapping up 2025 with a short story (less reading, our gift to you) . Daphne du Maurier’s The Birds was adapted and expanded by Alfred Hitchcock in 1963. We bet you’ve seen ti, but have you read the story? What happens when you take a short story that was originally about Cornwall post WW2 and translate it to a town in California? Can it keep its intended meaning or is it transformed into something else (better? worse?)
Twitter away with us on December 10th after the screening as we talk the film, the book, the lesbian themeing??? and so much more

You can find The Birds in the short story collection Don’t Look Now by Daphne du Maurier (out from NYRB books)