{"id":8601,"date":"2017-11-15T10:02:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T15:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/kindle-adapting-friend-request-novel-tv\/"},"modified":"2017-11-15T10:02:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T15:02:19","slug":"kindle-adapting-friend-request-novel-for-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/kindle-adapting-friend-request-novel-for-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindle Adapting Friend Request Novel for TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kindle Entertainment has acquired the TV rights to Laura Marshall\u2019s debut novel\u00a0<em>Friend Request<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A psychological thriller, Friend Request\u00a0has already sold more than 100,000 copies in the U.K. across all formats, with the paperback to be published on January 11, 2018. The book will be adapted by\u00a0Kate Gartside, whose writing credits include dramas such as BBC One\u2019s\u00a0<em>Mistresses<\/em>, BBC Two\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Challenger<\/em>\u00a0and Channel 4\u2019s\u00a0<em>Born to Kill<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The story follows as Louise Williams receives a\u00a0&#8220;friend request&#8221; on social media\u00a0from Maria Weston, who was last seen alive at their school leavers\u2019 party more than 20 years ago. Louise has lived her entire adult life feeling responsible for Maria\u2019s disappearance. But now Maria is back\u2014or is she?<\/p>\n<p>Melanie Stokes, the managing director of Kindle Entertainment, said, \u201cLaura Marshall\u2019s novel mines the unease we can all feel, now that our past mistakes are only a click away from discovery\u2026 And we are really thrilled that the wonderfully clever, Kate Gartside is adapting this utterly gripping and thoroughly entertaining thriller.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marshall added, \u201cI am utterly delighted that <em>Friend Request<\/em> has been optioned for TV by Kindle Entertainment. Getting my book published has been a dream come true, and this really is the icing on the cake.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kindle Entertainment has acquired the TV rights to Laura Marshall\u2019s debut novel\u00a0Friend Request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[2223],"class_list":["post-8601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories","tag-kindle-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kindle Adapting Friend Request Novel for TV - TVDRAMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/kindle-adapting-friend-request-novel-for-tv\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kindle Adapting Friend Request Novel for TV - 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