In a tweet on March 11, King said she is “truly thrilled” and that she “could not be more excited to be part of this adventure.”
She said “Writers & Lovers” is “a novel about taking big risks and here is Toni Collette making a huge leap with it.”
According to publisher Grove Atlantic, the book is about “a former child golf prodigy [who] now waits tables in Harvard Square and rents a tiny, moldy room at the side of a garage where she works on the novel she’s been writing for six years.”
The description also says the main character, Casey Peabody, “has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan”, has been “blindsided by her mother’s sudden death,” and “she falls for two very different men at the same time.”