Bloomsbury and Putnam nab Weinberg's new novel

Bloomsbury has signed Kate Weinberg’s "crackling, comical, tender, and mysterious" new novel, There’s Nothing Wrong With Her.

Head of Bloomsbury Trade Alexis Kirschbaum acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Claire Conrad at Janklow & Nesbit UK. US rights have sold to Gabriella Mongelli and Sally Kim at Putnam, by Marya Spence at Janklow & Nesbit, on behalf of Claire Conrad at Janklow & Nesbit UK. 

There’s Nothing Wrong With Her is about a woman suffering an unnamed condition that confines her to a physical and mental state she calls “The Pit”. According to the publisher’s synopsis, this is a book "about mental health, the certainties of medicine, buried trauma, love, death and time lost in the crushing—and comical—hopes of modern life."

Weinberg’s previous novel, The Truants (Bloomsbury), was selected as a Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month. 

Kirschbaum said: "Kate has written a brilliant comic novel that is a cross between The Yellow Wallpaper, I Capture The Castle and Nora Ephron’s Heartburn, but which is at the same time entirely original. Deadpan and poignant, it is a playful future classic that captures the surreal reality of the past few years and provides, all the while, humorous relief."