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Musical prodigy conducts memoir sale
Hodder's Judith Longman has bought world rights in the memoir of Alexander Stobbs, the gifted schoolboy musician featured in the Channel 4 series "A Boy Called Alex".
The memoir was acquired from Eve Wright at Eve Wright Literary Agency, and is a diary of Stobbs' progress towards his goal of conducting the "St Matthew Passion".
Stobbs, who suffers from cystic fibrosis, came to the attention of the public through a "Cutting Edge" documentary that charted his life as he prepared to conduct his Eton schoolmates in a performance of Bach's "Magnificat". The memoir will be published in June 2009.
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