OC Rhidian Brook's Novel Made into Film

OC Rhidian Brook (who left Churcher's College in 1982) is a novelist and screenwriter whose book 'The Aftermath' has been made into a film by the same name - its worldwide release takes place today at the Glasgow Film Festival 2019.

About ‘The Aftermath’

The Aftermath is set in postwar Germany in 1946. Rachael Morgan (Keira Knightley) arrives in the ruins of Hamburg in the bitter winter, to be reunited with her husband Lewis (Jason Clarke), a British colonel charged with rebuilding the shattered city. As they set off for their new home, Rachael is stunned to discover that Lewis has made an unexpected decision: they will be sharing the grand house with its previous owners, a German widower (Alexander Skarsgård) and his troubled daughter. In this charged atmosphere, enmity and grief give way to passion and betrayal.

The film is released in UK cinemas on Friday 1 March and the official US release of the film is on 15 March 2019. 

You can also read a Guardian Review of the book here: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/may/31/aftermath-rhidian-brook-review

About Rhidian Brook

Rhidian Brook was born in 1964 in Tenby, Pembrokeshire and started writing in his mid-twenties, gradually getting more well-known for his work in story-writing and screenwriting. In 2011, Scott Free commissioned a script based on his grandfather's experiences in postwar Germany. A year later he was offered a book deal to write the novel of the same story. The Aftermath was published in the UK by Penguin in 2013 and translated into 25 languages. 

Read his full biography here.