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Next Niffenegger Novel Draws Wide Interest

March 6, 2009
By Michael Cader

While auctions of commercial properties have been the focus of press attention in recent days, the market for the right literary fiction is also showing strength as editors and imprints across town have been engaged in the multi-day auction for the new novel by Audrey Niffenegger. Already announced for October 1 publication in the UK where Jonathan Cape had rights from an earlier deal, HER FEARFUL SYMMETRY is described at Amazon UK as “a delicious and deadly twenty-first-century ghost story about Niffenegger’s familiar themes of love, loss and identity,” promising “echoes of Henry James and Charles Dickens.” Niffenegger’s bestselling debut […]

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