Beyond Selidor

Just a full disclosure that I have not seen Baby Reindeer. With that being said, the fact that real people were identified makes me wonder whether it should have been fictionalized a little more. It seems this happens a lot, people write quasi-memoirs or series, and that can create problems.* Going completely fiction was probably the way to go, maybe pull from similar stories to create a completely new narrative that still spoke to what he'd been through.

ETA: I wanted to note that I do realize it may have been trickier said than done, given the nature of the things that happened to him. Maybe he considered fictionalizing it further, but understandably didn't want to create a whole other story. I don't know. It's complicated. I do hope that whatever the fallout may be, he at least found some comfort in telling his story.

*Especially now that things can be googled. I think the bigger risk used to be that someone would link themselves to the novel. Now there's a possibility anyone can google and figure it out for themselves, as we saw with Baby Reindeer.