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Viking has acquired a new novel by Orange New Writers' Prize shortlisted author Nell Freudenberger.
Editorial director Mary Mount bought UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, in The Newlyweds from Karolina Sutton at Curtis Brown, with the publication date to be confirmed.
Mount said: "The Newlyweds is dazzling: funny, profoundly moving and wholly original. It is about a marriage and the shattering of the image of the American dream, about different kinds of love and betrayal. It is a quite mesmerising novel."
Freudenberger's first short story collection, Lucky Girls, was shortlisted for the Orange New Writers' Prize and her first novel, The Dissident, was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She was also selected as one of the New Yorker's best 20 writers under 40.