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HarperPress has bought the rights to a novel by Araminta Hall, a first-time novelist who was a one-time ghost-writer for the supermodel Caprice.
Publishing director Clare Smith pre-emptively bought world rights for the novel, Everything and Nothing, from Carol MacArthur at United Agents. Smith described the book as "a stunningly assured debut, superbly evoking an atmosphere of inexorable and sinister menace that builds to a mesmerising climax in a story that is, at its heart, about thwarted and damaged love".
Everything and Nothing is due to be published in spring 2011. Tara Hiatt, head of international rights at HarperCollins, will handle US and translation rights.
Hall began her career as a journalist, working for Bliss, New Woman and the Daily Mirror, where she ghost-wrote the supermodel Caprice's column for the newspaper's Saturday supplement.