Chatto pre-empts Scream-inspired novel

Chatto & Windus has pre-empted a debut novel inspired by Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream. Publishing director Clara Farmer acquired world rights to The Strawberry Girl by Lisa Strømme from Bill Hamilton at A M Heath. The novel is set in 1893 in a small fishing community in the Norwegian fjords, and is narrated by a young girl, Johanne Lien, who bears witness to the tumultuous love affair that led Edvard Munch to paint The Scream. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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