Century signs two-book deal with Emma Kennedy

Century has signed a two-book deal with actress and writer Emma Kennedy, including a "moving, multi-generational" novel called The Box of Dreams.

Launching Kennedy's career as a novelist, Arrow deputy publisher Emily Griffin acquired world rights in all languages in two books from Kennedy through Sheila Crowley at Curtis Brown.

The Box of Dreams will publish in Century hardcover, trade paperback and ebook in August 2019 with an Arrow paperback following in February 2020.