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4th July 2009

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HarperCollins picks up Jerry Hall

12.10.07 Katherine Rushton

HarperCollins has snapped up world rights to the "explosive" autobiography of Jerry Hall, the Texan fashion icon and former wife of Rolling Stone Mick Jagger.

Agent Ed Victor agreed the deal for an undisclosed sum with Harper Non-fiction m.d. Belinda Budge and the company's US senior vice president Jonathan Burnham.

According to the publisher, the book "takes a candid look at [Hall's] experiences as a young model from Gonzalez, Texas; her marriage to Mick Jagger and her life in the rock ‘n roll fast lane," and promises to be an "explosive" read.

"Jerry is a force of nature," said Jane Friedman, HC's global president and chief executive. "She is a vibrant, happy woman with a great sense of humor whose life story contains the unexpected and makes for a riveting read."

Victoria Barnsley, chief executive and publisher of HC UK, added: "Jerry is one of life's great survivors. She's also very funny. I've no doubt her book will be highly entertaining and illuminating both about her own remarkable life and the extraordinary world she's lived in. I'm delighted to be publishing it."

The book will be published in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India.

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