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‘Queenie’ Boss Candice Carty-Williams Breaks Down Season 1, Adapting Hit Novel

'Queenie' author Candice Carty-Williams spoke of adapting the book, key scenes and more in an interview with Deadline.

Best-selling author Candice Carty-Williams met with 15 production companies to discuss adapting her book Queenie before the award-winning novel was even published. She wasn’t much older than her titular heroine’s age when she partnered with Lionsgate and it would be six more years before she completed her team with the addition of Channel 4 and Onyx Collective. Across Season 1, Queenie (Dionne Brown) comes to terms with her upbringing in a Jamaican British family that raised her to be strong and to avoid tough emotions.

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