Walker Books to publish Jandy Nelson's first book in nearly a decade

Walker Books will publish When the World Tips Over, the first book in nearly a decade by Jandy Nelson, the author of I’ll Give You the Sun and The Sky Is Everywhere (both Walker Books).

Editor at large Jane Winterbotham acquired acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from the Rights People, acting in the UK on behalf of Pippin Properties. The book will be published in the UK on 24th September; Walker Books Australia will publish it on 2nd October.

Walker is planning a high-profile marketing and PR campaign for the launch of the new book, including a push to engage a new generation of fans with the author’s backlist titles over the summer, with a repackaged cover look for both novels.

"This highly anticipated third novel takes her spellbinding writing to a new level, a kaleidoscope of wild, irresistible young people searching for a sense of home in themselves, each other, and the world," the synopsis says. "Welcome to Paradise Springs, Northern California – a hot, dusty, half-magical, wine-country town where there are so many grapes fermenting at any one time that you get drunk from breathing the air. When a strange, enigmatic, rainbow-haired girl shows up in their fantastical hometown, it sends the lives of Fall brothers Wynton and Miles and their sister Dizzy into tumult."

Nelson said: “Every character in When the World Tips Over is consumed with private sorrows and is searching for love, hope, meaning, magic, belonging – a sense of home in a world that’s tipping over. This is a novel about yearning and passion – for romance, for music, for food, for words, for people, for place, for life itself. It’s such a joy to be sharing this story that’s so close to my heart with both new readers and longtime ones of Sun and Sky.” 

Winterbotham added: “Jandy’s first two books rocked the world of YA and won her a passionate following. She writes like no one else: her loveable, flawed characters make us laugh and cry and remain with us long after the final page is turned. When the World Tips Over is everything we love about a Jandy novel and more, and will take readers on another dazzling emotional journey."