![]() ![]() Teenage years loud music dark make-up – but still the sisters spent time together. Twelve-year-old Anna Flores and her fifteen-year-old sister Gabriella were extremely close they had always been, but Gabriella was changing. Jenny is a teacher and mother of three who taught English in England, Spain and Greece before turning her hand to novel-writing. Sam Humphreys, Associate Publisher at Mantle, who bought Jenny’s book, has called it, “… a wonderful, wonderful novel: part whodunnit, part account of a life interrupted – not just Gabriella’s, but also Anna’s.” When her mother dies, Anna returns home, reigniting her questions – and her quest to uncover the truth – about what happened to Gabriella. ![]() When Birds Forget to Sing (a title which we’re told may yet change) is the story of Anna, whose sister Gabriella disappeared years before as a teenager. Jenny workshopped her novel on our creative writing courses in Spring 2014, and we’re thrilled with the news of her success. ![]() German rights were snapped up by Goldmann after a hefty pre-empt, and Italian rights have also been sold already. ![]() On the eve of the London Book Fair, UK rights were bought at auction by Mantle Books, an imprint of Macmillan. Jenny Quintana has become the 20th Curtis Brown Creative student to land a publishing deal, just days after her book was sent out to UK publishers by Conville & Walsh’s Sophie Lambert. ![]()
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