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Virago has acquired a second book by Paula McLain, author of this year's The Paris Wife, which told the story of Ernest Hemmingway's first wife.
Associate publisher Ursula Doyle acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada and the US, to the title through Caspian Dennis at Abner Stein.
The as-yet-untitled novel will tell the story of scientist Marie Curie, with McLain to deliver at the beginning of 2013. Publication is planned for either autumn 2013 or early 2014.
Doyle said: "Marie Curie (nee Maria Sklodowska) had a fascinating life and was a woman of huge determination and courage; this is rich territory for a writer of Paula's gifts, and I think the result will be something very special."
Doubleday Canada and Ballantine will publish in Canada and the US respectively, as with McLain's debut.
Curie was a French-Polish physicist and chemist who was awarded two Nobel Prizes, along with her husband Pierre, in 1903 and 1911.