Sofia Coppola has described Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father as a 'unique love story'
Coppola is set to team up with Andrew Durham to adapt Alysia Abbot's memoir.
American Zeotrope have acquire the rights to the story, while Coppola will work alongside her brother Roman to produce the film.
Coppola said: "I love the book 'Fairyland' - it's a sweet and unique love story of a girl and her dad, both growing up together in 1970s San Francisco.
"I think it will make an engaging and touching movie on a subject I've never seen before."
The film will be set in San Francisco in the 1970s and 80 - before and after the AIDS epidemic - and follow the life of Alysia and her father, Steve Abbott, a widowed poet and gay activist, who dies from AIDS.
It is yet to be announced who will direct the film.
We saw Coppola back in the director's chair earlier this year as she helmed Bling Ring: a movie that looked at the string of robberies from celebrities homes in Hollywood.
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