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.

Brit Bennett

Credit: Emma Trim; Riverhead Books

I mean, I dont want to have glaring inaccuracies!