Georgia has created a truly stunning world of shadowy scholars, terrible curses, promises unkept, doorways to brand-new worlds and love as both a force for life, and for destruction.

I was swept away into a story I could not stop thinking about: affecting, touching and infused with magic. Powell said: “I knew within a sentence that I would fall in love with The City of Stardust. To do so, she must descend into a seductive, magical underworld of power-hungry scholars, fickle gods and monsters bent on revenge, and travel to the edges of the world to find the City of Stardust, where the Everly story began.” The synopsis continues: “When her mother vanishes in the middle of the night, the curse falls on Violet Everly-unless she can break it first. It tells the story of the Everly family, who for generations have been cursed to lose their brightest and their best, taken by a woman named Penelope, who never ages, never sickens and never forgives a debt. The City of Stardust is a standalone adult fantasy. Spanish rights were pre-empted by Urano, German rights by Heyne and Italian rights by HarperCollins Italia. Nivia Evans, senior editor at Orbit US, bought US rights to two books, while Bragellone bought French rights.

The first book will be published in hardback in January 2024. Molly Powell, editorial director, acquired world rights to The City of Stardust and a second novel from Robbie Guillory at Underline Literary Agency.

Hodderscape has acquired two novels by debut author Georgia Summers, editor at Pan Macmillan’s speculative fiction imprint Tor, in a “significant' pre-empt.

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