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Hutchinson has acquired the rights to Generation i, a book about the young people born between 1994 and 2005, written by journalist Chloe Combi.
Associate editorial director Emma Mitchell acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Matthew Hamilton at Aitken Alexander Associates.
Combi will interview more than 2,000 members of "Generation i" and the book will be mainly told in their own voices. Hutchinson described it as “an emotional, illuminating, sometimes dark and often hilarious odyssey through the lives of these kids”.
Mitchell said: “Generation i will offer a new perspective on a generation. Chloe is an enormously talented writer who has a great rapport with teenagers from all kinds of backgrounds who find themselves in all kinds of situations. This book, using their words, will be a shocking, funny, heartbreaking and surprising look at what it’s really like to be a teenager today.”
Combi, who is a columnist for the Times Educational Supplement, said: “Over the last couple of years I’ve spoken to the richest kids in the country and the poorest. I’ve been called all kinds of names, gone to a ‘grooming party’, gone undercover and on a post GCSE trip to Glastonbury.
“I’ve hung out in the crack houses where they get high, rehabilitation centres where they recover and churches where they find God.
“I’ve found that Generation i are awful, selfish, violent, sex obsessed, and apathetic. And also that they are delight: kind, funny, intelligent, engaged, politically savvy, switched on, curious and worried for the future.
“This generation are the most misunderstood and the least heard – and I hope this book will change that.”
Generation i will be published in hardback in spring 2015.