Though no casting announcements have been made, Haven showrunner Gabrielle Stanton will head the series, with Stanton and Han serving as executive producers. Jenny Han is the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer I Turned Pretty series Shug the Burn for Burn trilogy, cowritten with Siobhan Vivian and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and P.S. The coming-of-age story follows Isabel "Belly" Conklin during the summers she spends with her family and the sons of her mother's best friend, focusing on Belly's relationship with the sons and her experiences of heartbreak and friendship. I Still Love You and the upcoming To All The Boys: Always and Forever, its biggest competitor has now set its sights on Han's other work.Īmazon Studios will adapt The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy, which Han launched in 2009 before To All The Boys became a sensation, into an eight-part series. The book achieved wider recognition in 2018 when Netflix adapted it into a film starring Lana Condor and Noah Centineo, which became a runaway hit for the streamer. With Netflix also making last year's sequel P.S. First released in 2014, To All The Boys I Loved Before became one of the most popular YA novels of the year, spending 40 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller List and raising Han's profile as a unique voice. For the longtime book fans, I think it will have.
Readers get glimpses of kisses on the beach, her best friend's flirtations during one summer's visit, a first date.Jenny Han, the author of To All The Boys I Loved Before, will now see her other hit book trilogy The Summer I Turned Prettyadapted into an Amazon TV series. The Summer I Turned Pretty is many years in the making, and I’m so excited to tell Belly’s story in 2021, Jenny said in a statement. "Belly's dawning awareness of her sexuality and that of the boys is a strong theme, as is the sense of summer as a separate and reflective time and place. Han's novel offers plenty of summertime drama." - Starred review from Publishers Weekly Han (Shug) realistically balances Belly's naïveté with her awareness of the changes the years have brought.
"This well-written coming-of-age story introduces 15-year-old Isabel, aka Belly, for whom summer has always been the most important time of year. I'd watch the three of them stop being kids and start being more.and I'd hope hope hope that when Belly falls in love - 'cause you know she will - she'd give her heart to the exact right boy." - Lauren Myracle, author of the ttyl series and Bliss I would inhale the ocean air and soak up the sun, and I would hang out all day with kind-wonderful-funny-awkward Belly and her two known-'em-forever buds, Jeremiah and Conrad. A former librarian, Jenny earned her MFA in creative writing at the New School. Her books have been published in more than thirty languages. "If I could live inside this amazing book, I would. She is also the author of the New York Times bestselling Summer I Turned Pretty series. A deliciously sweet read." - Deb Caletti, author of Honey, Baby, Sweetheart and Wild Roses " The Summer I Turned Pretty offers a hard-to-resist combination - a beach house, summer love, enduring friendship. Described as a multigenerational drama that.
The streamer ordered a series adaptation of her YA novel The Summer I Turned Pretty, Variety reports. To All the Boys author Jenny Han has a project in the works at Amazon.
"This book has what every girl wants in a summer." - Sarah Dessen, author of Just Listen and Lock and Key Lara Jean Covey’s story is coming to an end but her creator is starting a new chapter.