Peaky Blinders creators buy filming rights to ‘bingeable and profound’ thriller from Cork author Louise O’Neill

'This feminist thriller challenges us to examine our obsession with true crime as entertainment, while also looking compassionately and unflinchingly at domestic abuse and coercive control'

Louise O’Neill with her An Post Irish Crime Novel of the Year award for ‘After the Silence’, which is to be adapted for screen. Picture: Clare Keogh

A thriller by Louise O’Neill looks set to be adapted for the screen by the production team behind the successful BBC series Peaky Blinders.

Tiger Aspect has bought the film and television rights for After the Silence, which is set on an island off the Irish coast and follows a documentary crew's attempts to uncover the truth about the death of a young girl at a party there 10 years earlier.