AustLit

'In 2018, it was announced that Richard Flanagan’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2013) would be made into a “high-end drama series” by FremantleMedia. Jo Porter, Fremantle’s director of drama, called the novel “ripe for screen adaptation with huge visual potential and scale”. A somewhat more circumspect Flanagan referred to “the depth and the occasional brilliance of which the form [television] is now capable”. My italics.' (Introduction)