Anne Hathaway is set to star in a film adaptation of Live Fast Die Hot, a bestselling essay collection about motherhood and responsibility by humorist Jenny Mollen.

In the book Mollen, who writes about inviting her drug dealer to Passover seder to prevent him feeling left out, describes her attempts to become more responsible after she and her husband, Jason Biggs, were joined by their son, Sid. It was described by publisher Doubleday as “heartfelt and devastatingly honest”.

The film, which is being produced as part of a Warner Brothers push to develop more female-led projects, is the latest in a string of upcoming releases featuring Hathaway. The actor, an Oscar-winner for her role in Tom Hooper’s screen version of Les Misérables, has signed up to play a drone pilot in Grounded, a drama based on an off-Broadway play in which she starred. In addition, she’s set to be part of the ensemble cast of an all-female Ocean’s Eleven spin-off and will also appear in Colossal, a sci-fi drama in which her character leaves her job and boyfriend behind in New York after establishing a psychic connection with a giant monster that is destroying South Korea. That film premieres at next month’s Toronto film festival.