Jewish Book Week 2023 is proud to partner with the Jewish Chronicle, the world's oldest Jewish newspaper. She is the author of The Future of Seduction. Jewish Book Council A gorgeous new novel. Mia Levitin is a cultural and literary critic, whose work appears regularly in publications including the Financial Times, The Spectator and the Irish Times. DANI SHAPIRO is a best-selling novelist and memoirist and host of the podcast Family Secrets (now in its seventh season). Dani has been awarded the National Jewish Book Award twice, for Inheritance and Signal Fires. She occasionally teaches workshops and retreats, and is the co-founder of the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano, Italy. Dani’s book on the process and craft of writing, Still Writing, is being reissued on the occasion of its tenth anniversary in 2023. Dani’s work has been published in fourteen languages and she’s currently developing Signal Fires for its television adaptation.
Her most recent memoir, Inheritance, was an instant New York Times Bestseller, and named a best book of 2019 by Elle, Vanity Fair, Wired, and Real Simple. Her most recent novel, Si gnal Fires, was named a best book of 2022 by Time Magazine, Washington Post, Amazon, and others, and is a national bestseller. We are thrilled to welcome Dani to Chatto and Vintage and to launch her as novelist in the UK for the first time.Dani Shapiro is the author of eleven books, and the host and creator of the hit podcast Family Secrets. It also tackles the big questions of time, connection, fate, personal responsibility and the path not taken. It’s a work of haunting beauty and complexity from a masterful storyteller, with a wonderful overview of a family’s life. Hampson said: ‘ Signal Fires is exquisite – riveting, emotional, impossible to put down. Shapiro wrote about those epiphanies in her memoir I nheritance (Knopf). “The characters have been with me for over a decade, but it took recent epiphanies from my family history to set them free,” she said. Shapiro said she’d been working on the novel for several years but was only able to complete it after coming to terms with secrets from her own past. Signal Fires charts the story of a fateful decision made in a split second that sets off a chain of events with profound consequences for two families over several generations. It is the first of Shapiro’s works to be published in the UK. The book has been sold in seven territories so far and will publish in the UK in February 2023. Chatto & Windus has signed Signal Fires, Dani Shapiro’s first work of fiction in over a decade in a six-way auction.Įditorial director Poppy Hampson acquired UK rights to the “electrifying novel about family secrets” from Fiona Baird at WME.
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