With a six-figure preempt,
Claire Kohda’s
Woman, Eating for HarperVia. The debut novel, set for spring 2022, was sold in a North American rights agreement by
Sam Copeland at London’s RCW Literary Agency. Parsons described the work as a “literary vampire novel” that is “Ottessa Moshfegh meets
My Sister, the Serial Killer meets Twilight.” It follows an intern named Lydia who, Parsons explained, is living on her own, in London, for the first time. Away from her vampire mother, lonely, and hungry (subsisting on a diet of hard-to-secure pig blood), Lydia must “reconcile the conflicts within her between her demon and human sides, her mixed ethnic heritage, and her relationship with food and, in turn, humans if she is to find a way to exist in the world.” Kohda is a book reviewer who has written for the