HarperCollins buys fantasy debut by 18-year-old

HarperCollins has acquired a fantasy debut by 18-year-old classical musician, Stefan Bachmann. Editorial director Nick Lake bought UK and Commonwealth rights in the title and one other from Greenwillow Books at HarperCollins US. The first book, The Peculiar, is set in an alternative Victorian England, and follows Bartholomew Kettle, a changeling child, despised by both humans and faeries.