Ellen DeGeneres producing 'Sing You Home'

Ellen DeGeneres has signed to produce a movie adaptation of bestselling novel Sing You Home.

According to Deadline, DeGeneres has teamed with Storyline Entertainment partners Craig Zadan and Neil Meron to back the project.

Jodi Picoult wrote the novel that tells the story of a young woman who loses her husband after she gets pregnant but the child is pronounced stillborn. The woman later develops a romantic relationship with a female guidance counsellor.

The book touches on social issues including in vitro fertilisation and gay rights when the woman seeks to have a child by obtaining frozen embryos left behind by her and her husband, who becomes involved with an evangelical church.

It was reported in January that a source close to DeGeneres and her partner Portia De Rossi denied claims that the couple were planning to adopt a child.

The pair married at their Beverly Hills home in August 2008.

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