Joanna Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine are working on a television adaptation of the book Old Baggage by Lissa Evans.

Deadline reports that the book is "a comic novel about the legacy of the Women’s Suffrage Movement and one woman’s determination to create a meaningful present in the wake of her own thrilling and revolutionary past."  It follows Matilda Simkin, who was once a militant suffragette, but now finds the world has moved on. "It is 1928 and the once allied movement that she fought with is now irrevocably splintered and factionalised. However, the fight is far from over and she is not about to bow out quietly...." 

Scanlan (pictured) and Pepperdine previously appeared together in Getting On and Puppy Love. 

“Lissa’s grasp of character and her immaculate feel for women’s history made this property irresistible to us as actors and now producers,” said Scanlan and Pepperdine. “The book made us laugh, it made us cry and it kept us up reading till three in the morning. We can’t wait to start to develop it for long form television.”

More here.