“Animals” author and screenwriter Emma Jane Unsworth is set to adapt another of her own novels, this time for the small screen. She’ll pen and exec produce a series adaptation of “Adults.” Playground and wiip joined forces to option the screen rights to the book. Deadline confirmed the news.

Released this January in the UK and set to hit shelves in the U.S. in May, “Adults” tells the story of Jenny, “a woman in her thirties who has completely lost touch with herself. She’s just been dumped, she’s failing at work, losing her friends, and now her body has let her down too,” the source summarizes. “Instead of any meaningful relationship, columnist Jenny dedicates all of her time to maintaining the picture-perfect digital persona taking her online anxiety to a whole new level. Jenny is forced to put down her phone and reevaluate the complicated relationships with the mother, her friend, and most importantly, herself.”

“I think the mid-thirties are a very specific time for women,” Unsworth observed. “I personally had a huge identity crisis. ‘Adults’ is about a woman who needs to fall back in love with her life. She needs to fall back in love with her mother, her friends, her body, and her – disappointing, failed, awful, messy – self. That’s the beating heart of the story. I want to make women laugh, cringe, get angry, stick a flag in their desires, and feel solidarity,” she emphasized.

Unsworth wrote the screenplay for “Animals,” a 2019 dark comedy based on her 2014 novel of the same name. Directed by Sophie Hyde, the pic stars Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat as co-dependent, hard-partying BFFs at a crossroads.

“I’ll always write about intense relationships between women because that’s what interests me the most,” Unsworth has said. “One of my favorite things to do is play around with romantic comedy tropes but put them in a different context where it’s not a man and a woman, [instead] in the context of two friends or a mother-daughter bond.”