Canongate's Terri White memoir optioned by Bad Wolf

Production company Bad Wolf has optioned Terri White's memoir Coming Undone (published earlier this month by Canongate) for TV. 

Bad Wolf acquired audio-visual rights to the title from Anna Pallai at AMP Literary. 

White is the editor-in-chief of Empire Magazine. Coming Undone details the years she spent battling the disparity between her outward image as an award-winning editor, and her inner reality which was darkened by past trauma—as a child, White endured abuse at the hands of a number of her mother's partners. 

The contrast between her outer achievements and inner demons ultimately led to a mental health crisis when White was admitted to a locked psychiatric ward. 

Kate Crowther, executive producer at Bad Wolf, said: "Coming Undone is an exceptional, powerful memoir from the ferociously talented Terri White, and from the moment I read it I knew we were the right team to develop it. We couldn’t be more delighted."

White commented: "To say I’m excited about working with Bad Wolf on an adaptation of Coming Undone is a gargantuan understatement. Their reputation for producing bold, brave, brilliant telly makes them the perfect home for my book—one I wrote to try and give a voice to what so many of us experience in the shadows. That voice is set to get a lot louder."