14 October 2019
Julia Wisdom, publisher at HarperFiction, has bought UK and Commonwealth (excluding Canada) rights to Girl A and The Conspiracies in a six-figure deal with debut author Abigail Dean. Juliet Mushens negotiated the deal at a nine-way auction after turning down two "significant" six-figure pre-empts within 48 hours of submission. US rights went to Laura Tisdel at Viking in a seven-figure deal at auction by Jenny Bent on behalf of Mushens, while the novel was pre-empted in France, the Netherlands, Italy and Sweden, and sold at auction in Spain and Lithuania. TV/film rights are in negotiation via Sally Willcox at Paradigm.