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Agent Clare Conville is to pen her first book, a compendium of the advice offered by women to other women, co-written with Liz Hoggard of the Evening Standard and Times diarist Sarah-Jane Lovett.
Conville's colleague at Conville & Walsh Patrick Walsh has sold UK rights at auction to Amanda Harris and Lisa Milton at Orion. After three further auctions, the book has gone has gone in Grove Atlantic in the US, to House of Anansi in Canada and to Piemme in Italy.
Walsh said the as-yet-untitled book "aims to condense and refine into a comprehensive and user-friendly guide all those conversations and co-counselling sessions that women have with their mothers, sisters, daughters and friends over many years and which women in every office, kitchen, wine-bar and restaurant are having every day throughout the land," including such issues as "affairs - should you or shouldn't you?"
The book will offer around 600 such entries and be published for Christmas 2011. Walsh promised it would be "a grown-up and contemporary book", aimed at being "a bedside companion at moments of crisis as much as a compendium of wry humour and advice."