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Simon & Schuster has bought world English rights to a debut novel about the friendship between Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert.
Jessica Leeke of Simon & Schuster UK and Anjali Singh of Simon & Schuster US paid a high five-figure sum for rights to The Twelve Rooms Of The Nile by Enid Shomer. The deal was through Rob McQuilkin at Lippincott Massie McQuillkin.
Shomer, winner of the Iowa Fiction Prize in 2004 for her first collection of stories, takes as the starting point for her novel the friendship between Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert, both of whom were in Egypt in 1849 and examines how the early days of European exploration of the Nile may have affected them. Publication has been scheduled for summer 2012.