'These early friendships are huge romances': Extra Geography brings Rose Tremain's teenage love story to the screen

A new British film adaptation of Rose Tremain's semi-autobiographical short story Extra Geography has updated its setting from a 1950s boarding school to the early 2000s, according to the Guardian.

Tremain, who has previously voiced disappointment with the film adaptation of her novel Restoration despite its Hollywood budget and a cast including Robert Downey Jr. and Ian McKellen, is reportedly far more positive about this new project, the report said.

Speaking from her home in Norfolk, Tremain said she has been "delighted" by the adaptation, which was written by playwright and Succession screenwriter Miriam Battye, according to the Guardian.

A story that 'has relevance now'

Battye told Tremain at their first meeting that the story, first published in 2007, would transfer easily to the modern day, a comment Tremain said pleased her. "It's not just a little relic from my past. It has relevance now," Tremain said, per the report.

The Guardian's report centers on Tremain and the film's cast and crew discussing the intensity of teenage friendships depicted in the story and why, in their view, it continues to resonate with audiences today.