...to the new Penguin Classics edition of Elizabeth von Arnim's THE ENCHANTED APRIL. To say I'm thrilled does not do justice to my feelings. Maybe this picture of a treasured Puffin paperback, c. 1968, with my name emblazoned on page 1, will illustrate why I love those...
Beth Coates, Senior Editor, Jonathan Cape & Vintage, has acquired Brenda Bowen's ENCHANTED AUGUST, and a second untitled novel, for publication in Summer 2015. (UK).
Maybe, just maybe, I'll have a chance of selling here.
Brenda Bowen's ENCHANTED AUGUST, about a group of strangers - two Brooklyn mothers, an ingenue actress, and a grieving, older companion - who are transformed by spending the month of August on a secluded island in Maine...