My Sister's Bones: 'A gripping rollercoaster ride of a thriller that keeps you in there right to the last page': 'Rivals The Girl on the Train as a compulsive read' Guardian

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My Sister’s Bones is an elegant, punchy thriller with a dark heart. The twists and turns aren’t entirely unexpected, but that doesn’t detract from the power of the story-telling. “We’re all of us, every day, just a hair’s breadth away from evil. If I’ve learned anything from over 15 years of reporting, it’s that,” Kate tells us, before doing her best to fight it.

My Sisters Bones: A gripping rollercoaster ride of a thriller My Sisters Bones: A gripping rollercoaster ride of a thriller

Told in the first person and in the present tense, the story becomes a surreal and disorienting mishmash of dreams and reality, as Kate, hopped up on sleeping pills and white wine, finds her nightmares of Aleppo mingling with childhood memories of the death of her brother, and with the screams she believes she hears coming from the house next door at night. Kate’s dreams are played out in vivid colour – “blood” dreams, she calls them – while real life is confused and messy, whether it’s struggling to help Sally, or spending time in her childhood home, a place of darkness where her mother has fitted low-wattage bulbs “and retreated to the shadows... the first 18 years of my life had been spent in near-darkness, terrified of what lay hidden in the corners.” Herne Bay, “where darkness comes early and life is as predictable as the tides”, is the perfect setting for Ellwood’s intriguing blend of domestic horror and the terrors of war, the drama of the coastline and the sea offset by the mundane “neat boxed gardens and modest semi-detached houses”. “This is life,” Kate says to herself as she shuts the door to her mother’s home. “Not war and disease and burnt-out hotels, but men and women in their boxes with their babies and their coffee-makers and their holidays, this is what real life should look like... And I am on the edge of it all, a ghost with no foundations, no roots.” The project marks the second film from director Heidi Greensmith, whose debut feature Winter garnered three awards at the New York Film Festival, including Best Director, as well as a BIFA nomination in the Discovery Award category. The film was adapted for the screen by Naomi Gibney ( Devils). Bill Kenwright’s BKStudios is behind the project, adapted from Nuala Ellwood’s novel of the same name.West End theatre producer and film producer Kenwright has also been the chairman of Everton Football Club since 2004.

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Kate has returned to Herne Bay in Kent following her mother’s death, but finds herself haunted by PTSD from her time in Syria and other war zones. She’s also dealing with an alcoholic sister, Sally, with whom she shares a childhood of tragedy and abuse. Pic is produced by Bill Kenwright ( Broken), and executive produced by David Gilbery ( The Lost Daughter) and Naomi George ( My Pure Land) for London-based BKStudios. BKStudios optioned film rights from Madeleine Milburn Literary, TV & Film Agency in association with Soloson Media Limited.

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