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Virago has acquired a “gripping” memoir about surviving inner city New York in a pre-London Book Fair buy.
Darling Days by iO Tillett Wright was sold by Cathryn Summerhayes at William Morris to Lennie Goodings at Virago on behalf of Bill Clegg.
Wright’s memoir begins with her birth, “an injection of an infant into a crack-addled, poverty stricken, inner city hell, then trace through the navigation of a dangerous, uncharted, unconventional world”.
She said: “I aim to make this book a gift of companionship, both to my still-forming self, and to anyone struggling with an unconventional existence.”
Wright, a photographer, writer, actor and activist, lived as a boy for eight years from the age of six, fooling “everyone I met, my teachers at school, even the directors I worked with as an actor”.
Goodings said: “Her voice is just terrific: wise and funny without any sense of self-pity. And it’s a gripping story; I thrilled to her extraordinary spirit.”
Darling Days will be published in 2016 by Virago in the UK and by Ecco in America.