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Pan Macmillan has bought UK rights to a debut novel by Pippa Wright, the former rights director of Hodder & Stoughton. Jenny Geras, senior commissioning editor for fiction, bought Katy Henderson Loses Control at auction from Andrew Kidd director of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Geras said: "We’re all thrilled that Pippa is coming to Pan Macmillan. Katy Henderson Loses Control is the funniest, cleverest and most original debut novel I’ve read in this genre for a long time."
Katy Henderson Loses Control is about a risk averse and romantically challenged young woman who finally throws caution, and possibly reason, to the wind. Pan Macmillan will publish the title in April 2011.
Rights to the book have also been sold to Blanvalet in Germany and The House of Books in the Netherlands. The book was also pre-empted by Belfond in France.