Alice Hoffman's 'The Dovekeepers' will reportedly be adapted as a CBS miniseries
Author Alice Hoffman鈥檚 novel 鈥淭he Dovekeepers鈥� will reportedly be adapted as a miniseries for CBS.
The novel, which was first released in 2012, follows several women who come to live at Masada, a mountain fortress where 900 Jewish people, in the first century, resisted an attack by Roman forces, with only a few surviving the ordeal.聽
鈥�The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe鈥� co-writer Ann Peacock will adapt 鈥淒ovekeepers鈥� for the small screen. The miniseries is expected to air sometime in 2015 and will be four hours long, according to .
Hoffman is also the author of such novels as 鈥淧ractical Magic鈥� and 鈥淭he Probable Future.鈥�
鈥淒ovekeepers鈥� producer Roma Downey, who also produced the wildly successful History Channel miniseries 鈥淭he Bible,鈥� told Deadline she was completely won over by the four women around which the novel centers.聽
鈥淲hen I was finished I missed the characters, longed for the characters,鈥� she said. 鈥淭hey got under my skin.鈥澛�
In her review of 鈥淭he Dovekeepers,鈥� Monitor fiction critic Yvonne Zipp called the book Hoffman鈥檚 鈥渂est novel in years.鈥�
