Scribe acquires Colony by Annika Norlin

In Colony, a young woman suffering from burnout goes to the woods to recover. There, she observes a group of seven people living away from society. She becomes fascinated with their strange ways, eventually making contact with them and re-evalutating her own behaviours — but groups always have their dynamics and roles, and as she becomes more drawn to this strange group, she discovers the cost of joining the colony.

Annika Norlin said: ‘I'm really excited for Colony to go on and meet readers in new countries. Half of Colony I wrote slowly, half of it I wrote during a few, very intense months, almost feverish. It deals with a lot of the questions I've been thinking about the last couple of years. What's the right way to live your life? Where should you live it? And most of all: people. It's horrible to live amongst others and even worse not to. Some people have told me they feel Colony deals with the issues of today. I didn't think about it while I wrote it, I just wrote, but now in hindsight, I think I agree.’

The publication will be supported by a major publicity and marketing campaign next spring, and proofs are available now. Adam Howard, Publicity and Marketing Director at Scribe, said: ‘Colony is a cult novel in both senses of the word, and I was struck by how intricate and intimate Annika’s is — you get to know every member of this strange little colony inside and out. We think it’ll tap into the questions many of us are asking ourselves at the moment: what have we lost, living in a fast-paced, attention-addled world — and what would we sacrifice to get it back?’

UK and Commonwealth rights were acquired from Michael Dean at Andrew Nurnberg Associates UK.