Irish author Caroline O'Donoghue and producers Matt Jordan Smith and Chelsea Morgan Hoffman have discussed the process of adapting her bestselling novel, The Rachel Incident, for TV. Speaking at Dublin’s Storyhouse screenwriting festival, O’Donoghues said that failure is a significant part of the process for screenwriting and that adapting her own work for TV was a different challenge. The series, currently in production for Channel 4, Universal Content Production and Element Pictures, stars Máiréad Tyers, Ellis Howard, Sarah Greene and Daniel Ings. The book is set in Cork in 2010 and follows a student working at a bookstore when she meets James.