Pasta maker dishes up a deal with with Picador

Picador senior commissioning editor Sophie Jonathan signed world rights to Kyra Wilder’s début Little Bandaged Days from Jon Curzon at Artellus.

Jonathan called the book “a beautifully written, painfully claustrophobic story [which] details a housewife’s descent into madness while trapped in the confines of her perfect life”.

Wilder previously worked as a pasta maker at the Michelin-starred San Francisco eatery Quince.