Frome Nub News has profiled this local history book before, fascinated by his extensive research of the who's who's in Somerset - now it could be coming to the screen.

The book, Frome Fables tells the true story of the Earls of Cork and three tenant families who lived on the Marston Estate.

There are still a few copies left at the independent bookshop Hunting Raven Books on Cheap Street in Frome, the Frome Heritage Museum and the Radstock Museum.

Those 'peasants' later spread their wings into the harsh realities of Victorian Britain, reaching around the globe before emerging into the 20th century bringing their Boyle genes with them. This is not just their story but is a reflection of the history of Britain, from rural tranquillity to industrial superpower.

Author, Keith Browning told Nub News : "Many of my readers suggested Frome Fables should be turned into a TV or Netflix series, as it is packed full of action and emotional drama from beginning to end. I took them up on this and now have a completed script, which is currently in the hands of a number of film and TV producers.

"The script has been written as a saga, beginning with the young Edmund Boyle, who later became the 7th Earl of Cork, notorious for his philandering ways with the local Marston girls. The women take the Boyle genes into the wider community and later produce their own 19th century version of Richard Boyle, the great scientist.

"There is triumph and disaster along the way and every human emotion imaginable. A man is reprieved from the hangman (with a little help from the Earl), a village is struck by a 'volcano' and a mother is killed in an accident while attempting to save her child. Later a man patents a refrigerator in 1887, while his daughter becomes Britain's first female flyer, when she take to the air in 1911. To complement the dramatic action there is romance and sentiment at every twist and turn. "