The BBC has announced a new two-part documentary about JK Rowling, charting her rise to global fame as one of the UK’s most beloved children’s authors, then to the present day as a polarising figure thanks to her controversial views on transgender rights.
Rowling, 61, was a struggling single mother when she began writing the Harry Potter books in cafes around Edinburgh, spawning a global phenomenon that transformed the publishing industry and revitalised a generational love of reading.
