I’m so excited about this news! I really, really loved Elizabeth Gilbert’s The Signature of All Things. I loved the main character of Alma. She was feisty and strong and independent and just the exact kind of heroine you want to route for in a novel. So I was absolutely delighted to learn that Alma is coming to TV! And to PBS, no less! You know, the people who brought you Downton Abbey!
From Shelf Awareness:
PBS station WGBH has optioned Elizabeth Gilbert’s novel The Signature of All Things, which U.K. film and TV production company Origin Pictures (Death Comes to Pemberley, Woman in Gold) is developing, Deadline.com reported. Emily Ballou (The Slap, Scott & Bailey, Case Histories) will adapt the novel for television.
“Whenever I dreamed of seeing my novel transformed for the screen, I dreamt of working with exactly this team of people, and I’m delighted that my dream has come true,” said Gilbert
“Readers all over the world fell in love with this unique character–the rare heroine of literature whose fortunes are neither rescued nor ruined by a man,” WGBH noted.
