O by Steven Carrol

Type Street Productions acquires rights to ‘O’ authored by Award- Winning Author Steven Carroll

Producers Blythe Frank and Rodney Rigby have announced today that their company Type Street Productions has acquired the rights to acclaimed and multi-award winning author Steven Carroll’s most recent book ‘O’ and plan to adapt as a limited series for a streaming platform.

From one of Australia’s foremost writers, comes O, a reimagining of what might have been, the story of a novel that took on a life of its own and mirrored its times in a way the author never dreamt of.

‘A woman writes a story for her married lover. Something she always thought of as a fairy tale. A fairy tale with a dark side, like the best of fairy tales…’

Occupied France, 1943. France’s most shameful hour. In these dark times, Dominique starts an illicit affair with a distinguished publisher, a married man. He introduces her to the Resistance, and she comes to have a taste for the clandestine life – she has never felt more alive. Shortly after the war, to prove something to her lover, she writes an erotic novel about surrender, submission and shame. Never meant to be published, STORY OF O becomes a national scandal and success, the world’s most famous erotic novel. But what is the story really about – Dominique, her lover, or the country and the wartime past it would rather forget?

Steven Carroll is the multi-award winning author of twelve novels including A WORLD OF OTHER PEOPLE (2013), which was the joint winner of the Prime Minister’s Literary Award, and THE TIME WE HAVE TAKEN (2007), winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the SE Asia and Pacific Region and the Miles Franklin Award in 2008.