HarperCollins and Ahern celebrate 20 years with new three-book deal

HarperCollins and Cecelia Ahern are celebrating 20 years with a new three-book deal. 

Lynne Drew, publisher for general fiction, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights for two novels and a new volume of stories via Theresa Park and Abigail Koons at Park & Fine Literary and Media, New York. The first novel in the new deal will be published in spring 2024. 

Ahern is a longstanding HarperCollins author and has worked with Drew, her editor, since the start of her career, when Drew bought her first novel on 13 chapters in autumn 2002. PS, I Love You was published in January 2004 and went on to become a worldwide million-copy bestseller. 

Ahern said: “20 years ago I signed my first two-book deal with HarperCollins, with Lynne Drew as my editor. Little did I know the 20-year storytelling career that would ensue. I’m so happy and honoured to continue being part of the HarperCollins team, still writing, learning, and growing.” 

Park and Koons added: “There are few partnerships in the publishing world as enduring, successful and dynamic as that of Cecelia Ahern and HarperCollins UK – 20 years on, both author and publisher continue to evolve and surprise, each reflecting the changing landscape of the world we inhabit as women and human beings.” 

Drew said: “I have never met anyone with an imagination to match Cecelia’s and it’s been a continuing joy to witness her originality, brilliance as a writer and connection with readers through her thought-provoking and emotional novels. With these new titles, we will find her an even larger readership.”