Daisy Edgar Jones, who is best known for her role as Marianne Sheridan in Normal People is set to star in the movie adaptation of another best-selling book - Where The Crawdads Sing.
Edgar-Jones has landed the lead role as Kya in Delia Owens’ New York Times bestselling novel.
The movie will centre around a woman (Edgar-Jones) who is abandoned by her family and forced to raise herself in the marshlands on the outskirts of a small US town.
Released in 2019, the novel was an instant bestseller around the globe.
The film will be directed by Olivia Newman, from a screenplay written by Oscar-nominated scribe Lucy Alibar. It will be produced by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine along with 3000 Pictures.
Sharing the news of her new role to Instagram, Daisy wrote: “I can’t actually believe this?!”
