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Susan Stairs

I wonder today how no one else could see the bad thing coming. Not that I knew back then what the bad thing was; and if I had - if I'd known one of us was going to die - would there have been anything I could have done to prevent it? I play it all back in my mind, over and over. The clues were all there.”

On New Year's Eve, eleven-year-old Ruth and her brother and sister sit at Ruth's bedroom window, watching the garden of their new Dublin home being covered in a thick blanket of snow. Ruth declares that a bad thing will happen in the coming year - she's sure of it. But she cannot see the outline of that thing - she cannot know that it will change their lives utterly, that the shape of their future will be carved into two parts; the before and the after.
Or that it will break her heart and break her family. This is Ruth's story. It is the story of before.
A tense and atmospheric debut, the novel draws a finely detailed portrait of children struggling to understand the adult world - with dangerous and unsettling consequences. A powerful and deeply moving story that will stay with you long after the last page.

SUSAN STAIRS has lived in Ireland since early childhood. Involved in the art business for many years, she has written extensively about Irish art and artists. She received an MA in Creative Writing from University College Dublin in 2009 and was shortlisted for the Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award in the same year.
Manuscript available

Extent: 320pp

Publication: July 2013

Acquiring editor: Sara O’Keeffe

Rights: Translation

US: Lucy Luck Associates







THE ISLAND HOUSE

  1. Elisabeth Gifford




Steeped in the rich tradition of Scottish folklore, The Island House is a beguiling tale of love and loss, a meditation on motherhood and what each generation hands on to the next, and how we find our place in the world through the stories we tell.
When Ruth and her husband move into a grand but dilapidated old vicarage on a stunning island in the Outer Hebrides, they set about turning the unloved house into a wonderful family home, a place where Ruth can finally feel safe. But the discovery of the remains of a baby buried beneath the house, during renovations, threatens the fragile peace she has made with her own troubled childhood.
The tiny body Ruth unearths is unique and frightening. The baby’s legs are fused together into one limb – a mermaid child. Ruth is assailed by vivid experiences of what seems to be a child’s unseen presence in the house. And when she begins to research the history of the house, she uncovers the moving and heart-breaking story of Reverend Alexander Ferguson, an amateur evolutionary scientist who lived in the vicarage in 1880. His is a tale of love and loss – one Ruth can very much relate to. The more Ruth begins to understand the history of the house, the more she is forced to explore the tragedy embedded in her own past.
ELISABETH GIFFORD studied French literature and world religions at Leeds University. She has written articles for The Times and The Independent and has a Diploma in Creative Writing from Oxford OUDCE and an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway College. She is married with three children. They live in Kingston on Thames but spend as much time as possible in the Hebrides. This is her first novel.

Manuscript available: March 2013

Extent: 320pp

Publication: August 2013

Acquiring editor: Sara O’Keeffe

Rights: World ex US



US: Rogers Coleridge and White

  1. THE PERFUME GARDEN



Kate Lord Brown
A gripping tale of lost love and family secrets set between modern day Valencia and the Spanish Civil War.
Sweepingly romantic in the best possible way, heart breaking at times… A story makes you fall in love with Valencia, and its people.” Katherine Webb, author of The Legacy

High in the hills of Valencia, a forgotten house guards its secrets. Untouched since Franco's forces tore through Spain in 1936, the whitewashed walls have crumbled, the garden, laden with orange blossom, grown wild.


Emma Temple is the first to unlock its doors in seventy years. Guided by a series of letters and a key bequeathed in her mother's will, she has left her job as London's leading perfumier to restore this dilapidated villa to its former glory. It is the perfect retreat: a wilderness redolent with strange and exotic scents, heavy with the colours and sounds of a foreign time. But for her grandmother, Freya, a British nurse who stayed here during Spain's devastating civil war, Emma's new home evokes terrible memories.
As the house begins to give up its secrets, Emma is drawn deeper into Freya's story: a story of crushed idealism, of lost love, and of families ripped apart by war. She soon realises it is one thing letting go of the past, but another when it won't let go of you.

KATE LORD BROWN has worked as an art consultant, curating collections for palaces and embassies in Europe and the Middle East. She is the author of The Beauty Chorus, also published by Atlantic.

Finished copies available

Extent: 416pp

Editor: Sara O’Keeffe

Rights: World
Germany: Pendo; Italy: Sperling & Kupfer; Poland: Proszynski; Serbia: Alnari;

Spain: Ediciones B




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