Carley Fortune’s novel, Meet Me at the Lake, topped best-seller lists in May
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, the product of a modern-day storybook romance, have bought the screen rights to a modern-day storybook romance.a romantic novel by Canadian author Carley Fortune that topped the bestseller lists of The Globe and Mail and The New York Times upon its release by Penguin in May of this year, has been optioned by Meghan Markle and Prince Harry for Netflix. It is Fortune’s second novel.
Set in Toronto and in Ontario’s cottage country, it is the love story of two strangers in their early 30s – the improbably named protagonist Fern Brookbanks and the aggravatingly attractive artist Will Baxter – who find each other twice.Markle and Harry, who met in their 30s, signed a reported US$100-million deal with Netflix in 2020.
with just one series made. A Wall Street Journal report said the couple failed to meet the agreed-upon productivity standards required of a deal estimated by media to have been worth as much as US$20 million.with The Globe, former journalist Fortune described the book as a “love letter to Toronto.” Her two romance novels, including 2022′s
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