Prue Leith would love her 'Angelotti Chronicles' novels to be turned into a TV drama.
Prue Leith
The 'Great British Bake Off' judge recently released 'The Lost Son' - the final instalment in the trilogy after 'The Food of Love' and 'The Prodigal Daughter' - and she thinks the book series would make for the perfect material to be adapted into a Sunday night show.
Speaking on 'The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show' on BBC Radio 2, she said: "Oh, you know what, I'm really old, I'm going to be 80 next February.
"What I'd love, before I die, is to get one of my novels onto the TV screen. This trilogy, I think, is perfect for Sunday night. It's a drama, it's a family dynasty, it's a saga about food and love, and each generation's love affairs.
"It should go at nine o'clock, I reckon, on Sunday nights. However, I've not been able to sell it at all."
The series follows two families in the Cotswolds, and Prue admits it will be the last time she pens a trilogy.
The author - who has written another five books outside of the 'Angelotti Chronicles' - added: "Believe me, this is the last trilogy I will ever write.
"It usually takes me a year to write a novel, it took me five to write three, and it's not just the fact that you're having to remember all the characteristics of all the families but they keep on growing.
"The people have babies, they marry other people - but anyway, the readers don't have to worry about all that."
While Prue previously said she gets "cross" when she's dismissed as a celebrity writer, she won't turn her nose up at the extra attention her TV appearances have brought to the books.
She recently joked: "Mind you, if having rather more celebrity now than I had when I started the trilogy means it sells more books than the first one, we wouldn't mind, would we? I'm quite prepared to be grateful to 'Bake Off.' "
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