Audrey Niffenegger Receives $5 Million Advance for Second Novel
12th March 2009
Six years after the publication of her blockbuster best-selling novel, “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” Audrey Niffenegger has sold a new manuscript for close to $5 million, according to people with knowledge of the negotiations.
Have you ever heard of this “blockbuster best-selling novel”? Neither have I.
After a fiercely contested auction, Scribner, a unit of Simon & Schuster, bought the rights to publish the new novel, “Her Fearful Symmetry,” in the United States this fall. The book is a supernatural story about twins who inherit an apartment near a London cemetery and become embroiled in the lives of the building’s other residents and the ghost of their aunt, who left them the flat.
Well, there’s a must-read. I must confess that the concept of inheriting an apartment is mildly interesting, but while there is a Neil Gaiman book yet to be read, I doubt that this one is going to be high on my priority list.