‘Camomile Lawn’ Novelist’s Estate Snapped Up By ILP; ‘Happy Valley’ RTS; Stephen Rea Award; Warner Bros. Pictures Boards ‘Under Parallel Skies’ – Global Briefs
deadline.com‘Camomile Lawn’ Novelist’s Estate Snapped Up By ILP International Literary Properties has acquired the estate of British The Camomile Lawn novelist Mary Wesley.
Channel 4’s adaptation of The Camomile Lawn is Channel 4’s second most successful drama series of all time, according to ILP, and the deal will see ILP manage the rights to Wesley’s work.
Having famously published her first novel aged 70, she also wrote the likes of Jumping the Queue, Harnessing Peacocks and The Vacillations of Poppy Carew, all of which have previously been adapted for film and TV. “Mary was an incredible woman, an extraordinary author and a very close member of my family,” said Wesley’s daughter in law, the author Xinran Xue.
Deadline revealed last year that ILP, which holds rights to the literary estates of Langston Hughes and Evelyn Waugh, had headed on a West Coast charm offensive and snapped up the estate of Somerset Maugham. ‘Happy Valley’ Gets Three RTS Nods Happy Valley, The Gold and Top Boy will do battle for the RTS Drama Series award at the prestigious ceremony later this month, with the former picking up three nominations.
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