Press Release: Deals Done
Simon & Schuster Acquire New Monique Roffey Novel
Posted at 7:13AM Wednesday 28 Jul 2010
Simon & Schuster UK have acquired the next novel by Monique Roffey, whose latest, The White Woman on the Green Bicycle, was shortlisted for this year's Orange Prize for Fiction and has sold over 50,000 copies to date. Provisionally entitled Romany, the new novel will be set at sea – the story of a man who, having lost his wife, home and baby son in a devastating tropical flood, sets sail with his young daughter and their dog in an attempt to come to terms with his loss and make his peace with the elements. Senior Commissioning Editor Francesca Main acquired UK and Commonwealth rights including Australia and New Zealand from Isobel Dixon at Blake Friedmann. Main said: 'There is a real passion for and commitment to Monique at S&S and we're particularly thrilled to have the opportunity to publish her together with our colleagues at S&S Australia going forwards. Like The White Woman on the Green Bicycle, this new novel will also be inspired by real-life events and have a biographical dimension to it, yet will be transformed by Monique's miraculous imagination into something new. I have no doubt that it will be as unique, compelling, sensuous and resonant as her previous novels, and I can't wait for us to publish it.' S&S plan to publish Romany in spring 2012. In the meantime, they will publish Roffey's eye-opening and provocative memoir, With the Kisses of his Mouth, in summer 2011 and produce a special edition of her debut novel, Sun Dog, this coming April. For foreign rights enquiries, please contact Isobel Dixon on isobel@blakefriedmann.co.uk
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