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Headline’s Tinder Press will publish a “moving, beautifully written, warm and haunting debut” by Judy Chicurel.
Marion Donaldson, executive publisher at Headline, acquired British Commonwealth rights from Penguin US to If I Knew You Were Going to be This Beautiful, I Never Would Have Let You Go, and a subsequent novel by Chicurel.
The first book is set on a fictionalised Long Island during the summer of 1972, “in a working class community whose young men have been hard hit by the Vietnam War, and whose young women, including narrator Katie, face challenging decisions about the future”.
Donaldson said she “fell in love” with the novel from the first few pages. “It’s such an authentic portrayal of the early 1970s, and the quality of writing is exceptional,” she continued, describing the book as "a completely involving read, both insightful and poignant.”
Chicurel has written short stories published in Granta, and her work has also appeared in the New York Times and Newsday. She has also written plays which have been produced in New York City theatres and festivals.
If I Knew You Were Going to be This Beautiful, I Never Would Have Let You Go will be published in the UK in October 2014 and in the US by Amy Einhorn in the same month.