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'Normal People' Star Daisy Edgar-Jones to Lead 'Where the Crawdads Sing' Movie

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After breaking out in the series adaptation of Sally Rooney's Normal People, Daisy Edgar-Jones has been tapped to lead a big-screenversion of another best-selling novel.

Edgar-Jones will star in Sony Pictures' feature adaptation of the Delia Owens' debut novel Where the Crawdads Sing. The story follows Kya, a young woman who is abandoned by her family and is left alone to raise herself on a marsh outside a small North Carolina town.

After she becomes a respected author, publishing reference books on the local flora and fauna of her marsh, she is accused of murder of her former boyfriend, the town's golden boy.

Olivia Newman, who wrote and directed Netflix featureFirst Match, will direct. Oscar-nominatedBeasts of the Southern Wildscribe Lucy.

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