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Duckworth has bought the rights to a "hugely moving" memoir from journalist and novelist Roger Rosenblatt.
Commissioning editor Mary Morris bought UK and Commonwealth rights from Juliette Shapland, vice-president and director of foreign rights at HarperCollins.
Making Toast: A Family Story will be published as a hardback in September.
The book tells of the sudden death of Rosenblatt's 38-year-old daughter, and the following year when he and and his wife moved in with their son-in-law to help care for their three young grandchildren.
Morris said: "It's not often I come across a memoir as affecting as this one: there is clarity and elegance to the writing, but also a wonderful, droll warmth. It's a story that reminds us that often concentrating on everyday domestic details—making a two-year-old boy's buttered toast just
the way he likes it—can bring us through tragedy.
"It's a hugely moving book."
Rosenblatt was previously a columnist for Time magazine and has also written 10 other books.