Hutchinson Heinemann snaps up ‘necessary’ debut novel from Amy Abdelnoor

Hutchinson Heinemann has snapped up the début novel from Amy Abdelnoor, entitled Ever Land. 

Commissioning editor Linda Mohamed acquired world rights from Sophie Lambert and Alice Hoskyns at C&W Agency. The novel will be published in spring 2026. 

Abdelnoor was shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish College Fiction Prize in 2023. In the early 2000s, Abdelnoor lived in the West Bank and Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanaon, where she found inspiration for the novel. 

Told through dual perspective narration, Ever Land follows Dinah who is forced to move to Israel from London by her mother and her mother’s new partner. The synopsis continues: “While trying to come to terms with her new reality, she is haunted by the ghost of a Palestinian 14-year-old, Safa, who is hoping to be reconnected with her long-lost sister Nur by interfering with her thoughts.”

Mohamed said: “Amy’s novel feels more necessary than ever. Ever Land is a deeply empathetic, poignant and powerful story of humanity that sheds light on the painful history of Palestine and what happens when people are denied the place they call home. I couldn’t be happier to welcome Amy to Hutchinson Heinemann.”

Abdelnoor added: “Ever Land is born out of my experiences living in the West Bank under Israeli occupation and never have the voices of my two female protagonists, one from each side of this seemingly intractable divide, felt more urgent. I am thrilled to be working on Ever Land with the combined talents of my agents Sophie Lambert and Alice Hoskyns and the team at Hutchinson Heinemann. I am humbled to sit alongside such a stellar list of authors and I simply could not imagine a more perfect editor for this book than Linda Mohamed.”