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Macmillan gets Tormented

04.07.08

Macmillan has won an auction for Tormented, the memoir of multiple personality disorder sufferer Helen Ibbotson. The six-figure deal for UK and Commonwealth rights was struck by Macmillan’s Ingrid Connell with Andrew Lownie at the Andrew Lownie Literary Agency.

Ibbotson, who was the subject of Five documentary “The Woman With Seven Personalities”, will write the book with Clifford Thurlow. It will cover her multiple personality disorder—also known as Dissociative Identity Disorder—that led to drug and alcohol addictions, eating disorders, depression and suicide attempts.

The book has echoes of MPD sufferer Flora Rheta Schreiber’s memoir Sybil (Penguin), which Lownie said had sold six million copies worldwide since publication in the 1970s. Macmillan’s Sidgwick imprint will publish Tormented next spring.

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