If you made your way through POPSUGAR's 2020 Reading Challenge [1], you'll probably recognise Delia Owens's 2018 novel Where the Crawdads Sing [2]. Now, Sony is bringing the story to life with a film adaptation starring Normal People [3]'s Daisy Edgar-Jones as the lead [4], according to Deadline. "I can't actually believe this?!" Edgar-Jones captioned a post about the news on her Instagram [5] Stories.

The beloved book tells the story of a young girl named Kya who is abandoned by her family and forced to raise herself in the marshes of a small Southern town. When Kya's ex-boyfriend is found dead, she immediately becomes the prime suspect. The film will be directed by Olivia Newman, who wrote and directed 2018's wrestling drama First Match, and based on a screenplay written by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Lucy Alibar. Reese Witherspoon [6] and Lauren Neustadter, the head of Reese's online book club Hello Sunshine [7], will produce the film. No release date has been given for the project, but that just gives us more time to theorise about who will be cast alongside Edgar-Jones to play her love interests Tate Walker and Chase Andrews!