Channel 4 to adapt best-selling novel into a new drama series

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Fans of Sarah Moss's best-selling novel Summerwater will be thrilled to hear that Channel 4 is bringing the book to life in a new drama series.

The broadcaster has commissioned the adaptation of the Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller, which tells a devastating story over twenty-four hours in the Scottish highlands.The novel, by the acclaimed author of Ghost Wall, was also longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.

Channel 4 describes the upcoming series as a "thrilling and compulsive" drama that explores themes of nature, family, sex, class, tolerance, and the futile pursuit of holiday escapism.The synopsis reveals: "Set against the backdrop of a remote loch-side Scottish holiday cabin park and set over the course of one single rainy summer's day, Summerwater looks at the simmering tensions between holidaymakers that eventually erupt into a devastating climax."Weaving together the lives of several families as they navigate unspoken conflicts, private dilemmas, and fleeting moments of beauty from their disparate cabins, the series will take an unflinching but empathetic look at human nature across generations."Each episode will spotlight one or two of the ensemble of characters, spanning from young children to young lovers to reminiscing pensioners, to build a subversive, often witty, and always riveting portrait of the nation on edge that is modern Britain".The drama, which will be made up of six episodes, has been adapted by screenwriter John Donnelly (The Assessment, Utopia, The Pass) and will be directed by Robert McKillop (The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies, Then You Run, Guilt).Screenwriter John, said: "Sarah Moss writes with perception, compassion and wit about sex, love, and the dark