EXCLUSIVE : Bridget Jones , Notting Hill and Love Actually producer Working Title has found its next rom-com in the shape of British Nigerian author Bolu Babalola’s novel Honey And Spice .

Working Title has optioned film rights to the novel and set Babalola to adapt the screenplay, which will mark her debut as a feature film screenwriter after her TV pilot Big Age , which she created, wrote and executive-produced, was broadcast on Channel 4 in 2021.

Babalola’s debut novel centres on a young Black British woman who has no interest in love but unexpectedly finds herself caught up in a fake relationship with the very man she warned her girls about.

Following publication, Honey and Spice became a bestseller in both the UK and the U.S. It was chosen for the Reese Withersp

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