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Picador has bought a debut novel by Royal Holloway creative writing MA graduate Emma Chapman, with editorial director Francesca Main making her first acquisition for the imprint.
Main bought UK and Commonwealth rights, including Australia and New Zealand, to How to Be a Good Wife from Jamie Coleman at Toby Eady Associates, with plans to publish in spring 2013.
The book focuses on long-married Marta and Hector, as Marta begins to see visions of a blonde girl, and she tries to remember life before Hector.
Main said: "From the first page, the unwavering composure of Marta's first person voice had me hooked. How To Be a Good Wife could be described as a psychological thriller, or even a ghost story, but to my mind it is simply a very, very good novel: masterfully controlled, elegantly written and utterly mesmerising."