Today’s first bit of book-to-film adaptations comes from Sony Pictures  who has acquired rights to Robert Goolrick’s novel The Reliable Wife.

The story is set in rural Wisconsin in 1908, focusing on a middle-aged widower who places a newspaper ad seeking a “reliable wife”. Moving the story forward, the man finds himself fielding not a homely applicant, but a gorgeous former courtesan with an agenda of her own.

Michael de Luca is currently attached to produce. No director was mentioned.