Scribe are thrilled to announce that we have acquired World English language rights to award-winning journalist Moya Sarner’s first book When Do You Grow Up?
In the book, Sarner — whose freelance work has appeared in G2, Guardian Weekend, Times2, The Times Magazine, The Sunday Times Magazine, New Scientist, Stylist, and more — will examine what growing up actually means, and how we do it again and again throughout our lives, with each chapter focusing on a different stage of adult life. She will draw on case studies, as well as her development as a trainee psychotherapist, and theories of child psychology, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and more, to examine what it means to be a ‘grown up’ and how we can meet the challenges and opportunities of every stage of our lives.
Rights were acquired by Scribe UK’s Molly Slight. She said: ‘I am delighted to be working with Moya on her first book, which takes the question that we have all asked ourselves at one stage or another— When will I grow up? — and turns it on its head, asking instead what it actually means to ‘grow up’ and what challenges and opportunities each life stage presents. Moya’s ambition is to make people feel connected, to tell stories that they will recognise themselves or others in, that will make them feel less isolated in their experiences of growing up, at every life stage; in this book, she will take an aspect of the human experience that is at the same time both universal and deeply personal, and show how it echoes through our lives and the lives of those around us.’
Slight acquired World English rights from Rebecca Carter at Janklow & Nesbit (UK). Scribe will publish in the UK, Australia, and the US in 2022. Enquiries about Scribe’s publication should be directed to molly[AT]scribepub.co.uk. Enquiries about translation rights should be directed to RCarter[at]janklow.co.uk.