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Granta senior editor Bella Lacey has bought UK and Commonwealth rights in a book by New Yorker staff writer Rebecca Mead about the novel Middlemarch.
Lacey acquired the title in a "competitive" four-way auction handled by Kathy Robbins and Louise Quayle at The Robbins Office, with Michael Heyward of Text Publishing buying the Australian and New Zealand rights.
The as yet untitled book is said to mix literary criticism, biography and memoir to describe "with infectious passion" how relevant Middlemarch and its author George Eliot are to the modern day and the fundamental questions about life and love. Publication date is yet to be confirmed.
Lacey said: "Mead gets right under the skin of all that's exceptional in George Eliot's writing and thinking, mingling a deep investigation into George Eliot's work with her own experiences of love, life and marriage."