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Juliet Annan at Fig Tree has bought a début novel, Mr Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt, after an auction involving seven bidders, from Sarah Lutyens of Lutyens and Rubinstein.
Annan bought UK and Commonwealth Rights (excluding Canada) to two novels.
Annan called Hunt "a stunning new talent" and described the book as being "about as far away from the classic début novel by a young writer as you could possibly imagine, involving as it does a large black talking dog, Winston Churchill and themes of loss, grief, and British identity, coupled with some of the funniest and most original scenes and dialogue imaginable."