Lena Dunham adapting ‘Catherine, Called Birdy’ into movie

She also expressed hopes of directing the film and detailed that she’d been interested in the book from a young age. “I’m going to adapt it and hopefully direct it. It’s hyper realistic and really pretty and it’s full of incest and beatings, but it’s a child’s story. I’ve been obsessed with it since I was a kid,” she said.

‘Catherine, Called Birdy’ is written by Karen Cushman and is a coming-of-age story that follows a 12-year-old girl trying to scare off potential husbands.