Question: is a place to call home based on a book

Answer: No, Development for A Place to Call Home began after Bevan Lee completed his ``domestic trilogy'' (Always Greener, Packed to the Rafters and Winners & Losers). He took inspiration from film director Douglas Sirk's 1950s films such as Written on the Wind (1956) and All That Heaven Allows (1955). Lee told The Age that he wanted to create a romance-driven melodrama based in the 1950s because people's lives in the present are ``relatively bland''. He said: ``At the end of the day, conflict is drama and we live in relatively conflict-free society. I had to go to a place where there was pain and damage and hurt; after the war there was.'' The script is co-written by Lee and Trent Atkinson.