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EXCLUSIVE: Bestselling British writer Adele Parks is having her novels turned into a TV bid for nan first time.
Parks has struck a woody pinch Studiocanal-backed Strong Film & Television for a home thriller based connected nan interconnected characters who look crossed Our Beautiful Mess, Playing Away, Lies Lies Lies and Young Wives’ Tales, which person been published crossed her 25-year career.
Our Beautiful Mess, which came retired past year, sits astatine nan bosom of nan adaptation, which isn’t yet attached to a network. That book tells of a mother who can’t hold for her kids to return from vacation but discovers 1 is pregnant erstwhile she gets backmost pinch her troubling boyfriend, mounting disconnected a spiral of secrets and threats.
Strong Film & Television laminitis James Strong, nan head down Mr Bates vs nan Post Office and Vigil, will nonstop nan caller bid pinch Bafta-winning EP Loretta Preece. A screenwriter and formed will beryllium announced successful owed course.
Parks is 1 of nan UK’s top-selling authors. She has written 25 novels since nan move of nan millennium. Her activity has antecedently been adapted into movies for illustration 2024’s The Image of You and past year’s The Stranger successful My Home.
The woody was brokered by shaper Jim Parks, whose caller credits see The Image of You along pinch Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers.
Strong called Park’s novels “a director’s dream… blistering page‑turners that request to beryllium brought to nan screen.”
Parks added: “From nan infinitesimal I met James and nan squad astatine Strong Film & Television, I knew I’d recovered nan cleanable partners. Their energy, productivity and dynamism are astonishing. I’m assured we’ll present what my fans person been demanding – emotive, entertaining, must‑see TV.”
Strong Film & Television launched successful 2023 and is making an ITV play bid astir a young Elizabeth I with a trio of former Grey’s Anatomy showrunners. It conscionable landed nan authorities to Robin Stevens’ Murder Most Unladylike.
