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The bestselling novelist Nicola May has signed an option agreement with the production company Mermaid Pictures with a view to adapting her debut novel Working It Out for television.
First published in 2011, the romantic comedy follows the fortunes of Ruby Matthews who, after redundancy, launches a mission to find the ideal job by trying twelve different occupations in twelve months.
Lightning, the fiction imprint of Eye Books, published a paperback edition in 2021.
May is the author of eighteen romantic comedies, all of which have appeared in the bestseller charts. The Corner Shop in Cockleberry Bay became the bestselling Kindle book in the UK, across all genres, in January 2019, and was Amazon’s third-bestselling novel in that year.
It spawned three sequels, followed by the hit Ferry Lane Market trilogy.
Lightning publishes paperback editions of all four Cockleberry Bay books, as well as The Hub, Let Love Win, The School Gates, Love Me Tinder and Working It Out.
Originally self-published, May successfully campaigned for dedicated ebook charts in The Bookseller. Her work has been translated into fifteen languages.
Mermaid Pictures was established in 2024 by the award-winning producer/director Sara Gibbings and director Jo Southwell.
