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Frances Macmillan, assistant editor at Vintage, has bought a "funny and charming" debut novel, Warm Bodies by Seattle-based writer Isaac Marion, for which film rights have already gone to Twilight producers Summit Films.
Macmillan bought UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) from Lauren Pearson at Regal Literary in London.
Warm Bodies is the story of R, a zombie who yearns for a better life, and who begins to transform after he falls in love with a young human woman.
Macmillan described the book as a "brilliant modern day Romeo and Juliet with zombies", predicting it would charm fans of Stephenie Meyer and 'Shaun of the Dead' alike. The book will be published as a Vintage Original in October.