Elizabeth Is Missing. Poster of the 2019 movie and cover of the 2014 book
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Elizabeth Is Missing
Emma Healey, 2014
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Aisling Walsh, 2019

Maud, a grandmother in her 80s living with Alzheimer’s disease, relies on sticky notes to get through the day as her memory slowly deteriorates. One day her best friend, another elderly woman named Elizabeth, fails to meet her as promised. She is forced to investigate on her own as her memory flashes back to the mystery of another disappearance: that of her elder sister, Sukey, 70 years earlier.


Blinded by the Light. Poster of the 2019 movie and cover of the 2007 book, Greetings from Bury Park
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Greetings from Bury Park
Sarfraz Manzoor, 2007
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Gurinder Chadha, 2019

In 1987, Javed Khan and his family – Pakistani migrant parents Malik and Noor and sisters Yasmeen and Shazia – live in Luton, England during Thatcherism. Javed faces constant racism from his peers and neighbours, and Malik forbids him to socialise, insisting he follow the Jews in his school because of their success as a people.


Deep Water. Poster of the 2019 TV series and cover of the 2015 book, The Mistake I Made
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The Mistake I Made
Paula Daly, 2015
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Jim Loach, Al Mackay, Harry Wootliff, 2019

A six-part drama about three women struggling with men, money and family. Lisa is an overworked and underappreciated wife and mother, frazzled by and flailing from all the running around she does for her business and family without much help from her husband. Kate is a has-it-together alpha and tiger mum who seems to have it all, from the handsome husband and two kids, to the lakefront house and sailboat. And Roz is a physiotherapist and married mum whose life is on the verge of collapse.


Deep Water. Poster of the 2019 TV series and cover of the 2013 book, Just What Kind Of Mother Are You?
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Just What Kind Of Mother Are You?
Paula Daly, 2013
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Jim Loach, Al Mackay, Harry Wootliff, 2019-

A six-part drama about three women struggling with men, money and family. Lisa is an overworked and underappreciated wife and mother, frazzled by and flailing from all the running around she does for her business and family without much help from her husband. Kate is a has-it-together alpha and tiger mum who seems to have it all, from the handsome husband and two kids, to the lakefront house and sailboat. And Roz is a physiotherapist and married mum whose life is on the verge of collapse.


Firestarter 2: Rekindled. Poster of the 2002 TV series and cover of the 1980 book, Firestarter
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Firestarter
Stephen King, 1980
TV series vs book
Robert Iscove, 2002

Vincent Sforza works for a large, influential research firm, and he has been put in charge of locating several people who were part of an old experiment from the 1970s—an experiment in which a group of college students were given a dose of a chemical called LOT-6. When Charlie was a kid, Charlie’s mother Vicky was murdered by men who worked for the now-defunct Shop.