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Dialogue Books seizes Misfits actor Fadipe’s ‘sensational’ debut novel
Actor Kehinde Fadipe’s “smart and fun” début novel In Such Tremendous Heat has been snapped up by Dialogue Books.
Amy Mae Baxter, senior editor, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from agent Hayley Steed at Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency in a two-way auction. It will publish in July. US rights were pre-empted by Grand Central’s Rachael Kelly.
The book follows three expats "living in Singapore’s non-stop sunshine, low tax rate and with crocodile Birkins on every other arm". The publisher said: "Dara, Amaka, and Lillian are living the dream until their carefully constructed lives are upended by a handsome and mysterious new arrival."
Baxter said: “It’s been such a joy to work on such a sharp, sensational novel. Entering into Kehinde’s Singapore has been a fun and sexy escape from the realities of living in the UK. That this début author has been able to balance such difficult topics as class and career, infidelity and infertility with beautiful insights into the power of female friendships fills me with awe and excitement.”
Fadipe, who was part of the cast of Channel 4’s Misfits, said: “‘I’m so thrilled to be able to birth my first book. I’ve loved working with this incredible team—my dream agent Hayley Steed, Amy at Dialogue and Rachael at Grand Central, all of whom have been amazing and have turned what is sometimes a lonely journey into a delight.”
Steed said Kehinde’s characters were the kind who leapt off the page from the second you met them.
“Between all three women, I found myself drawn into the atmospheric setting of sweltering Singapore as the tensions in all their lives bubble over,” she said. “It’s a smart, thoughtful and fun read and Amy and the team at Dialogue’s vision for its publication was unparalleled.”
