A series based on Emily Giffin’s All We Ever Wanted is in the works at Netflix, Deadline reports.
Giffin’s novel, published in 2018 by Ballantine, follows Nina Browning, a woman raised in a small town who marries a wealthy Nashville man, with whom she has raised a son, Finch. Finch takes a revealing photo of a nude, unconscious girl, causing a firestorm of controversy, and Nina befriends the girl and her single father. A critic for Kirkus called the book “a compelling portrait of a woman facing the difficult limits of love.”
The series will be written by Jessica Goldberg, who will also serve as showrunner; she is known for her work on the series Camp, Parenthood, and Away. Executive producers of the series will include Goldberg, Reese Witherspoon, and Harlan Coben.
All We Ever Wanted will be the first series produced by both Witherspoon and Coben, who collaborated on the novel Gone Before Goodbye, published in October by Grand Central. Coben has had a relationship with Netflix since 2018, when he signed a deal under which more than a dozen of his books would be adapted for the streaming service.
Giffin’s 2004 novel, Something Borrowed, was adapted into a 2011 film directed by Luke Greenfield and starring Ginnifer Goodwin, Kate Hudson, and John Krasinski.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
