Pamela Dorman Books/Viking Acquires ENCHANTED AUGUST

FROM PUBLISHERS MARKETPLACE 6-12-14

Fiction: Debut:

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, rediscovering themselves and their capacity for happiness at the same time, loosely based on Elizabeth von Arnim's classic novel THE ENCHANTED APRIL, plus a second novel, to Pamela Dorman at Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, in a pre-empt, for publication in summer 2015, by Faith Hamlin at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates. (North American)

A very big day.