Magpie Pictures has optioned screen rights to Emma Grey’s novel Pictures of You, and appointed Quan Phung and Fiona Eagger as advisors.

The pickup of Grey’s novel comes as part of a plan to develop a slate of scripted series through funding from Screen Australia Enterprise.

The book follows forensic linguist Evie Hudson who loses memory of her husband and the past 13 years after a car crash that kills him. “As she pieces together fragments of her life Evie has to confront what she’s lost and find what she still has to fight for,” said Magpie founder and producer Lois Randall. “With its unique hook and point of view we’re adapting Pictures of You as a mystery thriller that, while traversing urgent themes, has a second chance love story at its heart.” She will produce the series with Matt Kelly as executive producer. “Pictures of You rocketed straight into the USA Today best seller list after it was published in November and is already out-pacing Grey’s debut novel The Last Love Note which was a global breakout best seller,” said Randall.

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