Nicole Kidman to star in The Silent Wife

Nicole Kidman will star in The Silent Wife, based on the novel by the late A.S.A. Harrison. The film will be directed by Adrian Lyne from a script by Billy Ray. The film will begin shooting next year. This was first reported on Mystery Fanfare in 2013. Looks like some things have changed, but the film will be going forward.

The Silent Wife was one of my favorite reads in 2013.

Nicole Kidman to star and produce A.S.A. Harrison's The Silent Wife

Deadline reports that Nicole Kidman will star in and produce an adaptation of The Silent Wife by the late A.S.A. Harrison. It was the first work of fiction by the author, who died a few months before her book became such a literary sensation. The movie deal was made with Harrison’s estate, which was repped by Paradigm on behalf of Samantha Haywood and The Transatlantic Agency.

Mazur/Kaplan partners Paula Mazur and Mitchell Kaplan have teamed with Kidman and Per Saari’s Blossom Films to option the psychological thriller and produce. Mazur/Kaplan will fund development. Book-centric producers Mazur/Kaplan made Nim’s Island and are developing The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Society with StudioCanal for Simon Curtis to direct and are adapting Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, also with StudioCanal, and Jack Thorne and Deborah Moggach writing.

A.S.A. Harrison: R.I.P.

I read and ARC of A.S.A. Harrison's debut thriller The Silent Wife (Penguin) this past December. It gripped me from page one, and I couldn't put it down. I ended up reading it in one sitting. What a terrific novel of suspense-- a great psychological thriller. At the time, I told all my friends and family about it, but with the caveat that they'd have to wait until June when it launches in the U.S. I, like so many other readers of the ARC anticipated many more dynamic novels from Harrison. Alas, that will not happen now. A.S.A. Harrison passed away in April. What sad news.

A.S.A. Harrison is a deft and skillful writer. In The Silent Wife, she leads the reader through the world of killer and victim. The Silent Wife is an emotionally charged psychological thriller about a marriage in the throes of dissolution, a couple headed for catastrophe, concessions that can’t be made, and promises that won’t be kept. The Silent Wife will be translated into five languages.

A.S.A. Harrison's obituary from the Toronto Star.

Toronto non-fiction author and editor Susan (A.S.A.) Harrison died Sunday, as her first novel, the psychological thriller The Silent Wife, was garnering advance kudos and rave reviews.

“There is sadness about missing what is about to happen with the launch of her novel,” Harrison’s husband of 30 years, renowned visual artist John Massey, told the Star.

“However, she did see its success in terms of the numerous countries that have bought publishing rights and, as well, she was very happy about the very positive endorsements from other authors the novel had been receiving.”

Harrison was 65. The cause of death was cancer, Massey said.