![]() ![]() And awards season has kicked off with Sorrow and Bliss longlisted this week for the Australian Book Industry Association’s Literary Fiction Book of the Year award. There’s also a screen adaptation on the horizon after the production company behind 12 Years a Slave, Gone Girl and Bohemian Rhapsody bought the film and TV rights earlier this month. There was a hotly contested auction for international rights for the novel, which was released in the US and Canada this month and will be published in the United Kingdom in June. ![]() HarperCollins head of fiction publisher Catherine Milne talks about the “bookish women” who have helped drive the novel’s success - endorsements from Marieke Hardy, Emily Maguire, Caroline Overington, Anna Spargo-Ryan, Annabel Crabb - not to mention a blurb from American literary darling Ann Patchett about wanting to send the novel to everyone she knows.Īnd the momentum is gathering. ![]()
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