A novel set in Cork city is being turned into a TV show

UPDATE 2PM: Ms McInerney, who will adapt the novel into the show’s script, told the Irish Examiner that she “can’t wait to get cracking”.

The series is set to be directed and executively produced by Julian Farino, whose directorial credits include episodes of Entourage, Sex and the City, and the US Office.

"The Glorious Heresies has a terrific ensemble of original characters, all of whom have compelling journeys, making it ideal for a classy television series. Not only does Lisa write with edge and compassion, but her dialogue and sense of rhythm is hugely cinematic. Her material is made for the screen," Mr Farino told trade magazine “The Bookseller”.

Having read the book, Mr Farino and Fifty Fathoms approached the author about working on the adaptation, and Ms McInerney said she is looking forward to seeing the book presented through another medium.

“It's exciting to discover what aspects of the world you've made interest other creative people, and you need to have different ways of approaching the telling of the story for different mediums,” she said.

“Julian has such affection for the characters and plenty of ideas that feel very right for the Heresies world and the people in it. So I'm looking forward to seeing what we all come up with together,” she said.

While she does not know if the series will retain the book’s setting, Ms McInerney said she is hopeful the show will take place on Leeside.

“In a sense, Heresies is a story that could take place anywhere, but in another sense everything about it is so steeped in Cork, in terms of the size of the city, its history, even its geography,” she said.

“And who wouldn't froth at the mouth for a chance to write dialogue in Cork-Hiberno? I might be being a small bit biased here but it's the liveliest of our dialects.”

EARLIER: An Irish debut novel set in Cork city is set to appear on the small screen.

Galway woman Lisa McInerney's novel, The Glorious Heresies, has been optioned for TV in a deal with production company Fifty Fathoms, according to a report in The Bookseller.

The production company has developed projects for the BBC, Channel 4, ITV and Sky, and is to develop further series for Sky Atlantic.

McInerney will adapt the novel for TV, working alongside Julian Farino, who will direct and executive produce a series adaptation of the book, which he described as "made for the screen".

" The Glorious Heresies has a terrific ensemble of original characters, all of whom have compelling journeys, making it ideal for a classy television series," Farino said. "Not only does Lisa write with edge and compassion, but her dialogue and sense of rhythm is hugely cinematic. Her material is made for the screen."

Farino has previously worked on 'Entourage'.

The Glorious Heresies has received a number of prestegious awards since its publication, including Desmond Elliott Prize and being named Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction book of the year.

..And the winner of the 2016 #BaileysPrize is Lisa McInerney for The Glorious Heresies. Congratulations Lisa! pic.twitter.com/R7GmZhvTTL

— Women's Prize (@WomensPrize) June 8, 2016

The novel is due to be published in Spain, France, Holland, the Czech Republic, Denmark and Italy, with more countries under negotiation.

Lisa McInerney’s second novel, The Blood Miracles, will be published April 2017. It will be set "in the same world" as The Glorious Heresies and a number of characters from her debut are expected to return.

News of the adaptation comes a few months after a production company secured the television rights to another Irish book, Louise O'Neill's Asking For It.

Clonakilty native O’Neill will co-write the script of any future TV adaptation of the novel.