The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, written by Cannon during lunch breaks, has been snapped up by company that made Amy
A first time novelist who wrote in NHS car parks in her lunch breaks and in the small hours of the morning before work has secured a television dramatisation deal for her first book and a £300,000 contract for her second novel.
The Trouble With Goats and Sheep, partly inspired by the patients Joanna Cannon worked with as a hospital psychiatrist, and praised in a Guardian review as “a novel to be savoured rather than hurried through”, has become a bestseller since it was published in January.
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