The web connection won in a heated auction with 17 bidders vying for the critically acclaimed novel.
HBO will pay low seven-figures for the book and Bennett will executive produce the series.Deadlinefirst reported the news.
The Mothers,which also explores teenage girlhood, is already being developed as a feature film byKerry Washington.
Credit: Emma Trim; Riverhead Books
I mean, I dont want to have glaring inaccuracies!
