When Rufi Thorpe started shopping around the film and television rights to her as-yet-unpublished novel Margo’s Got Money Troubles, she knew she wasn’t going to be precious about it. “I was very comfortable with the adaptation diverging significantly, I actually like it when they do that,” she says. “So I wanted someone who had a vision.” Thorpe had already released three novels — The Girls From Corona Del Mar (2014), Dear Fang, With Love (2016) and The Knockout Queen (2016) — and there were very early signs that Margo was going to be different. When her film and television agents suggested submitting the manuscript to producers months ahead of its planned June 11, 2024 publication, she knew she probably had a hit on her hands.
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