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Chatto has paid a six-figure sum for Sadie Jones' new novel, Small Wars, and plans to publish the title in September 2009. Clara Farmer, editorial director at Chatto & Windus has acquired UK and Commonwealth (excluding Canada) rights from Caroline Wood, agent at Felicity Bryan Agency.
Jones' first novel, The Outcast proved very successful after appearing as one of Richard and Judy's Summer Reads and also won the Costa First Novel Award. Small Wars is set in the 1950s and explores the British colony of Cyprus. The book asks what becomes of a man when all that he believes in—his country, his army and his marriage begins to crumble.
Farmer said that that Small Wars is the "perfect follow-up" book. "Jones' distinctive, restrained voice setting out in a different, bold direction. It’s ambitious and brilliant," she said. "She knows exactly when to pull her punches, and the central and terrible events in the plot are astonishing in the telling. Small Wars is a provocative and heart-rending story that left me enthralled—and in tears."