Pan Macmillan’s Rights Director, Harriet Sanders, has sold North American rights to Andrea Walker at Penguin Press who will publish alongside Picador in spring 2013. Translation rights have already been sold in:
- Brazil - Novo Conceito
- Denmark - Lindhardt og Ringhof
- Germany - Droemer
- Greece – Klidarithmos
- Holland - Artemis
- Israel - Kinneret
- Italy - Garzant
- Spain - Duomo
- Sweden - Norstedts
Ten Things I've
Learnt About Love is told in the alternating voices of Alice and Daniel,
two very different characters with a surprising connection. For fans of Anne
Tyler, Maggie O’Farrell and Sarah Winman, it is a story of fathers and
daughters, of lost lovers, of rootlessness and homecoming and the power of the
ties that bind.
Picador’s Editorial Director, Francesca Main, comments,
‘This is such a special novel – it is heart-wrenching, original and
captivating from the first page. Having written for many years without a
publisher, Sarah Butler found herself with a two-book deal and a literary agent
within the same week, and now she has foreign publishers signing her up around
the world. It’s been a life-changing time for her, not to mention a wonderful
time for Picador, and I know we have lots to look forward to.’
Harriet
Sanders adds,
‘Just like all of us at Picador, publishers around the
world have been bowled over by the quality of Sarah Butler’s writing. Within 24
hours of sending out the manuscript we were receiving offers from publishers and
it’s exciting and rewarding to see her distinctive talent recognised
internationally.’
The Author
Sarah Butler is in
her early thirties and based in London. She runs her own consultancy called
Urban Words, which develops literature and arts projects that engage with the
process of urban regeneration. She has done various writer-in-residence
projects, from stories on the Central Line to a recent residency in Great Ormond
Street Hospital to a British Council project in Kuala Lumpur; and has had short
stories published widely.
Author
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