BBC and A24 are adapting Booker Prize winner Shuggie Bain as a TV series

The BBC and A24 are teaming up to adapt Douglas Stuart’s 2020 Booker Prize-winning novel Cozy bath.

A24 will produce the series for BBC One, with the project marking Stuart’s first television series.

Deadline first revealed news about the series in December 2020, when Scott Free Productions was involved and director Stephen Daldry was in talks to come on board the project.

Set in the 1980s, Shuggie Bain based on a mother and son relationship in working class Glasgow. Agnes, the mother of the titular Shuggie, believes she is a star but increasingly finds solace in alcohol and consumes the family’s weekly allowances, but Shuggie, an effeminate boy struggling to fit in, sees her as his guide and take care of her while she fights. with alcoholism.

It is based on Stuart’s own childhood in Glasgow’s Thatcher era. “I am very grateful to the BBC and A24 for their trust Shuggie Bain“, he said. “I am thrilled to bring the Bain family to the screen and to have the opportunity to expand my novel and add new lines to the story that explore hardship and struggle, as well as the compassion, humor and resilience that is so central to “the Scottish spirit of the film.”

Gaynor Holmes, BBC Drama Commissioning Editor, added: “Shuggie Bain is an extraordinary novel, with all the skills of extraordinary television. It is a real honor to work with the enormously talented Douglas Stuart to bring his vision to the BBC.”

The novel was an international bestseller, selling in 39 countries.

Douglas writes A24 is executive producer with Holmes for the BBC. A24 also has international distribution rights.

Filming will take place in Scotland and further details will be announced in due course.