Bloomsbury lands new novel by Booker Prize-longlisted Reid 

Bloomsbury has landed the new novel by Booker Prize-longlisted Kiley Reid. 

Alexis Kirschbaum, head of Bloomsbury trade, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, but including audio rights, to Come and Get It from Fiona Baird, on behalf of Claudia Ballard at WME. North American rights went to Sally Kim at Putnam. 

It will publish in January 2024 with a “major” marketing and publicity campaign.  

The book follows a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a professor and three unruly students. The synopsis says: “It’s 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie’s starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardised by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks and illicit intrigue.” 

Kirschbaum commented: “Kiley Reid takes on money, class and power on an American college campus with an eye for the revealing detail as sharp as Jane Austen on the English aristocracy – and just as entertainingly. Her ability to lightly expose social hypocrisy and human absurdity hits the high-low sweet spot dead centre, and I can’t wait to help her bring this second novel to British readers.”