British auteur Terence Davies is developing a feature based on "
Mother of Sorrows," the prize-winning 2005 debut novel by American Richard McCann.
"
Mother of Sorrows" consists of 10 interwoven stories about two teenage brothers dealing with the death of their father and the influence of their strong, complex mother. The novel won the John C. Zacharis First Book Award and was nominated for the Stonewall Book Award for gay fiction.