Novel The Last Wave Being Developed for TV

Awesome Media & Entertainment, the creative content company founded by writer-producer Jeff Norton, has optioned the media rights for Gillian Best’s debut novel The Last Wave.

The Last Wave, set in Dover, is an intergenerational saga that centers on Martha, a woman who has swum the English Channel ten times, and the complex relationships she has with her husband, her children and her close friends. The one constant in Martha’s life is the sea, which provides an allegorical backdrop to three generations of her family.

Awesome will immediately begin developing The Last Wave for television, with Norton and ex-BBC Worldwide and ITV Studios executive Fraser Robinson attached as executive producers. The deal marks Awesome’s first literary acquisition since receiving an investment from Kew Media Group.

Norton said: “Awesome is an author-founded company and we want to be the home for the world’s most creative storytellers. Gillian Best’s novel is heart-breaking yet ultimately heart-warming tale that is at once a feminist story, a novel about a marriage and a narrative about one woman’s self-empowerment and liberation from domestic life.”

Best added: “I’m delighted that Awesome has picked up The Last Wave. As an author, I’ve found it incredibly fascinating to hear how my novel has been interpreted by different readers, and I’m excited to see what new perspectives this will bring.”