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Biography

Feeney was born in 1978 and grew up in Essex. Before becoming a published writer, she joined the BBC at age 21 under the name Alison Feeney-Hart, where she would work as a producer and journalist for fifteen or sixteen years. She became a producer for the '' One O'clock News'', and also a reporter and news editor, and producer for arts and entertainment programmes. Feeney started writing her first novel, ''Sometimes I Lie'', when she was 30, writing in her spare time and on the train to work. She took the Faber Academy writing course, finishing the book and course around the same time.

Adaptations

In 2019,

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bought the television rights to ''Sometimes I Lie'', and in November 2019 a project for a television series starring Feeney enthusiast

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was revealed.

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was engaged to adapt the book, and

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and Jeff Kleeman, as well as Gellar and Swicord, were to be executive producers. In 2020,

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, Kristen Campo, and

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acquired the television rights to ''His & Hers''. Her book ''Rock Paper Scissors'' will also be adapted into a series on Netflix.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Feeney, Alice British mystery writers 21st-century British novelists 21st-century British women writers Living people British women mystery writers British women novelists Year of birth missing (living people) 1978 births Writers from Essex