Suppressed passion... and bees

Variety informs me that Anna Paquin will star in a movie adaptation of Fiona Shaw's 2009 novel Tell It To The Bees. According to the article, the story is set in the 1950s, and Paquin will play a doctor who returns to her hometown to take over her late father’s medical practice. Her situation grows complicated when she tumbles into a secret romance with the mother of a patient, played by Holiday Grainger. The novel is described as an "unholy mash-up of 1950’s social and magical realism", which... doesn't tell me much, frankly, but maybe it will be great?