The Lying Life of Adults

KEY SELLING POINTS

• The first new work of fiction in over five years by Elena Ferrante, mega best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend/Neapolitan Novels/Neapolitan Quartet (17 millions copies sold worldwide, 3.7 millions copies sold in North America)
• Screen adaptation rights sold to Netflix.
• Audiobooks rights sold to PRHA - celebrity narrator Marisa Tomei announced in August
• Major film in production: Elena Ferrante's The Lost Daughter starring Olivia Colman and Dakota Johnson, directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal in production, planned 2021 release
• Previous titles New York Times and ABA National Indie Bestsellers and Long-sellers (Over 50 weeks on bestseller lists, including #1 ABA National Indie, #1 Amazon Bestseller, #2 New York Times, #20 Combined Print and Ebook New York Times, USA Today, PW combined)
• Week of 4/19/2020: My Brilliant Friend (2012) is an ABA National Indie Bestseller at #26, 8 years after publication
• Translated by Ann Goldstein, translator of previous books and "a rare celebrity among translators." (Wall Street Journal)
• Author was a TIME Magazine 2016 Most Influential Person of the Year
• Major HBO series, My Brilliant Friend, season 2 March-6 May 2020, season 3 t.k. 2021

TARGET CONSUMER

• Readers of literary fiction, general fiction, upmarket women's fiction, international literature, book club fiction Ferrante readers are politically and culturally engaged, college educated, frequent mainstream media consumers (NPR/WaPo/NYT etc); readerships skews to women between 25-65
• Readers of Elizabeth Strout, Zadie Smith, Kate Atkinson, Margaret Atwood, Karl Ove Knausgaard
• Purchase physical, electronic and audio books primarily from brick & mortar indie bookstores, B&N, Hudson, and online retailers like Amazon, Bookshop, BN.com
• Readership clusters around Engaged Enthusiasts, Buzz Followers, and Super Fans.
• Key markets: New York City, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago and Philadelphia