BBC announces "wild, anarchic, Y2K" drama inspired by Paris Lees' memoir What It Feels Like For A Girl
Lees was widely praised for her brutally honest account of her upbringing as a teenage boy called Byron in the "small-minded" town of Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, as well as for capturing the Y2K era in all its pre-internet nostalgia.
Now she is re-telling the story across an eight-part series, which will be directed by Chris Sweeney (The Tourist).
As Byron, Lees felt stuck in her small working-class town that was still struggling after the closure of its coal mine in the 1980s, and felt sick of her parents and being beaten up for "talkin' like a poof."