The Girlfriend: Book vs. Series
Prime Video’s 2025 series The Girlfriend is adapted from Michelle Frances’s 2017 novel. Robin Wright’s Laura and Olivia Cooke’s Cherry offer competing views of a relationship shaped by suspicion and control.
About the book and the series
- Author
- Michelle Frances
- Year
- 2017
- Pages
- 400Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 10 hr 4 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Henrietta Meire
Laura has built a successful life and a close bond with her adult son, Daniel. When he introduces Cherry, an ambitious young woman from a very different background, Laura becomes convinced the relationship is dangerous. Suspicion grows into a contest between the two women, and one desperate lie changes all three lives.
- Creator
- Gabbie Asher, Naomi Sheldon
- Year
- 2025
- Episode
- 50 minWatch on Amazon
- Seasons
- 1
- Episodes
- 6
- Network
- Prime Video
- Cast
- Robin Wright, Olivia Cooke, Laurie Davidson, Waleed Zuaiter, Tanya Moodie
- Genre
- Thriller
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Laura’s successful life begins to unravel when her son Daniel introduces Cherry, a girlfriend Laura immediately distrusts. Told through the competing perspectives of the two women, their suspicion and hostility grow into a struggle over Daniel in which neither account offers a simple version of the truth.
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