Fay Weldon’s supernatural novel Puffball has been optioned by Firebird Pictures for a TV adaptation, Deadline reports.
Olivier Award-winning playwright Morgan Lloyd Malcolm (Netflix’s “Obsession“) is attached to write the series.
Published in 1980, Puffball was previously adapted into the 2007 film of the same name by Nicolas Roeg.
The novel follows “a young London couple, Liffey and Richard, who move to the country with the expectation of having children. Their neighbors are Mabs and Tucker, a farming family with five children of their own.
“Mabs, jealous of the newcomers’ easy life, sends Tucker to sleep with Liffey while Richard is away, priming her with an herbal aphrodisiac, but she becomes angry when Liffey becomes pregnant and finds that she herself is suddenly unable to conceive.”
The new take on Puffball is not yet attached to a network, but Firebird is backed by BBC Studios.
