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Women's fiction author Lucy-Anne Holmes has moved to Little, Brown from Macmillan for her next two novels.
Sphere senior editor Rebecca Saunders bought UK and Commonwealth rights in two novels for the Hachette imprint through agent Rowan Lawton at PFD. Saunders acquired Holmes' first two novels for Macmillan in 2007, and read only the first 10 chapters of the newly submitted novel before signing the new deal for an undisclosed sum.
Saunders said: "Lucy's trademarks have always been her laugh-out-loud hilarity and tremendous warmth but there is also a heartbreaking poignancy to this new novel. We are unbelievably thrilled that Lucy is joining Sphere."
The as-yet-untitled novel, about Gracie Flowers, the best female agent in London, whose five-year plan for life is starting to unravel, will be published next September. Holmes is the author of 50 Ways to Find a Lover and The (Im)Perfect Girlfriend.