Rebecca Serle’s novel about a young woman who runs into the 30-year-old version of her late mother during a trip to the Amalfi Coast has been picked up for feature adaptation.
According to Variety, Paramount Pictures won the film rights to One Italian Summer in a competitive bid. Things are still in the very early stages (and there’s a possibility that this adaptation will never make it to a theater near you), but the competitive nature of the sale gives the project better odds than most.
Serle’s book centers on the relationship between the daughter, Katy, and her mother, Carol. The two planned to take this trip to the Amalfi Coast together, but Carol passed away right before they were supposed to leave. The two spend the summer together in Italy (hence the title of the book), and Katy has to reconcile the mother she knew with the younger, pre-Katy Carol she’s hanging out with. I haven’t read One Italian Summer, but it sounds like it’s a book about Feelings, which is great!
This isn’t the only book of Serle’s that’s getting adaptation treatment. There’s also her novel, In Five Years, about a lawyer who thinks she’s got everything figured out—but wakes up five years in the future married to a different guy in a different apartment. When she’s jettisoned back to her own time an hour later, her life, to say the least, is turned upside down when she runs into that different guy four-and-a-half years later. Another curio-fiction story!
No news on when either of these adaptations will make their way to our eyeballs.
