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Leah Woodburn at Headline paid a "significant six-figure sum" to pre-empt world rights to a debut novel, When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman, in a deal done at the fair with Robert Caskie of PFD. The novel is a coming-of-age story in two parts, one seen through the eyes of a young girl and the second set in New York amid the events of 9/11.
Caskie called it "a mesmerising portrait of childhood, with very dark and quirky humour," and said he had "never before received such immediate and universal praise for a submission". The book will be published in hardback in 2011.