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Faber has bought a memoir by Michael Frayn, the award-winning author of Headlong and Spies, which it plans to publish this September.
Publishing director for non-fiction Julian Loose bought UK and Commonwealth rights, including Canada and serial rights, to My Father's Fortune through Carol Heaton of Greene & Heaton, who is handling US and translation rights.
The memoir follows Frayn's father, an asbestos salesman "with a winning smile, who was quite undaunted by his increasing deafness and family tragedy". It also looks at Frayn's childhood in suburban Surrey.
Frayn said: "This is my first attempt to confront, head-on and full-length, the world I grew up in. I embarked on the journey rather hesitantly, but as the story began to tell itself, at once so familiar to me and so unfamiliar, I found myself being carried along by it to places I had never foreseen."
Loose added: "Everyone who loves Michael's novels and plays will cherish how he re-creates the world of his childhood and his own coming of age."