Elizabeth is Missing adapted for BBC

There's been plenty of news coming out of the BBC this month (Phoebe Waller Bridge back on TV anyone?) but perhaps the most exciting of these new ventures is an adaptation of best-selling novel Elizabeth is Missing by author Emma Healey.

Adapted by Andrea Gibb (Swallows and Amazons) and made by STV Productions, Elizabeth is Missing is a 'tender yet unflinching' mystery-come-exploration of an elderly lady's life and her difficulties with dementia.

Delicate OAP Maud becomes convinced that something awful has happened to her friend Elizabeth, and sets out to unravel the mystery behind Elizabeth's apparent disappearance. But, with dementia clawing at her remaining cognitive functions, Maud's ability to differentiate between the past and present begins to slip away as old skeletons emerge unwelcome from long-closed cupboards. The race is on to find her friend before she loses herself.

Andrea Gibb said: 'I am honoured to have been given the opportunity to adapt this beautiful story. Emma has created an extraordinary heroine in Maud – she’s funny, tenacious, loyal – while also giving us a moving portrait of dementia from the inside out.'

The cast for Elizabeth is Missing is yet to be announced, but as more and more big names come from film to TV (Bill Nighy is in the BBC's new Agatha Christie adaptation over Easter), we have high-hopes Maud will be played by someone jaw-dropping.