Ruth Ware Recalls Learning Reese Witherspoon Loved Her Book [Video]

Author Ruth Ware still remembers the moment she learned that Reese Witherspoon was a fan of her work.

On Oct. 29, the bestselling thriller writer answered questions submitted by members of the online literary community BookThreads, during an ‘Ask Me Anything’ on Threads. In response to a question about an opportunity that changed her life, Ware replied that it had to do with finding a fan in a famous book-lover.

“I guess for me the answer is — writing my books!” Ware wrote. “I never expected them to take off the way they did — and I can still remember … my agent phoning and going ‘Sooo, Reese Witherspoon loves In a Dark Dark Wood’ and almost dropping the phone. The decision to write that book literally changed my life!”

In 2018, Deadline reported that Witherspoon and producer Bruna Papandrea were further developing a film adaptation of In a Dark Dark Wood, after bringing writer Arash …