"Brimming with California sunshine and blood-red rose petals, Rouge holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality, our collective fixation with the surface, and the wondrous, deep longing that might lie beneath.Īwad’s novels include the TikTok popular Bunny (Head of Zeus), 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl (Head of Zeus) and All’s Well (Scribner UK). The publisher’s synopsis said: "With black humour and seductive horror, Rouge explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industry-as well as the danger of internalising its pitiless gaze. Rouge, which Scribner will publish as a lead hardback on 14th September 2023, is described as "a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale" about a dress shop clerk whose mother’s unexpected death sends her in pursuit of youth and beauty. The film rights have already been optioned by Sinestra and Freemantle. Marysue Rucci Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, will publish in the US and Hamish Hamilton in Canada on 12th September. In a two-book deal, editorial director Chris White acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, in Rouge and another novel deal from Anna Webber of United Agents, on behalf of Bill Clegg at The Clegg Agency. Scribner UK has nabbed Rouge, the new novel by Mona Awad, who Margaret Atwood selected as her "literary heir" in the New York Times.
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