Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan’s Mad Honey is headed to the small screen, Deadline reports.
Thunderbird Entertainment, a Canadian production company known for the sitcom Kim’s Convenience, bought the rights to the novel and plans a television series based on it.
Picoult and Boylan’s bestseller, published last year by Ballantine, is the story of two New England high school students, Lily and Asher, who fall for each other. When the young woman is found dead, her boyfriend is charged with the murder. A critic for Kirkus praised the book, calling it “a well-paced story that highlights several timely issues, with a stimulating courtroom trial that makes it worth reading.”
Picoult and Boylan will be among the series’ executive producers, along with the CEO and president of Thunderbird Entertainment.
In a statement, Boylan said that she and Picoult are “very proud” of their novel.
“We hope this tale will provide people with more than a little suspense, as well as possibly shining a light for them on some of the issues currently at large in our culture,” she said.
“We know that seeing our novel translated into a series will only continue the conversations that we need to be having about authenticity, identity, and gender,” Picoult added.
Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas.
