Margaret Atwood's first novel The Edible Woman to be adapted for TV

Variety

Entertainment One has purchased the rights to The Handmaid's Tale author's first novel, The Edible Woman, published in 1969 and revolving around a woman "whose safe, carefully crafted world begins to crumble after Peter, her perfect, successful lawyer boyfriend, proposes. Suddenly unable to eat, Marian’s reality begins to slip. She unconsciously starts to reject the consumer-oriented world around her and society’s prescribed ideas of womanhood, as she tries to take control of her own life and choices." The Edible Woman is the latest Atwood novel to be adapted for TV, following Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale, Netflix's Alias Grace and HBO's upcoming MaddAddam, based on her book trilogy.