The indie has signed a£30,000 deal for the rights to Rae Earl's non-fiction book My Fat, Mad, Teenage Diary, which was published last year. Tiger Aspect beat Kudos and BBC Vision Productions in an auction handled by Eve White Literary Agency.
Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps creator Susan Nickson was chasing the book for the BBC, under her three-year exclusive development deal with the corporation.
Tiger Aspect has yet to confirm who will adapt the book, but has signed Earl as a consultant. Liz Lewin will be the development producer.
My Fat, Mad Teenage Diary is the journal Earl kept as an overweight 17-year-old, living in Stamford, Lincolnshire, in 1989.
It follows her life in a council house with her mother and a deaf cat, and documents her food obsession and her regular trips to the phone booth to gossip about boys from the local grammar school.
“It's so topical, given the concerns about obesity,” said Eve White. “It appeals to teenagers because it reflects their concerns about school and love, but it is also a real document of life in the late 1980s.”
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