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ABC brings Alloy’s best-selling Bright Young Things novels to TV

ABC is bringing to the screen Alloy’s best-selling novel “Bright Young Things”, from Anna Godbersen.

The John Wells produced adaptation will be penned by playwright/screenwriter Sheila Callaghan.

Deadline says :

It is set in 1929 and centers on two women who escape their small Midwestern town and end up in Manhattan. One discovers that the father she’s never known is the head of a crime ring, while the other struggles to become a singer.

The book series was launched in 2010, with a novel by that name, followed by “Beautiful Days” and “The Lucky Ones”.

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