Hachette acquires Jones’s ‘Cool Water’

 Books & Publishing, 26 October 2022  

Hachette has acquired world rights to literary novel Cool Water by Myfanwy Jones, in a deal negotiated by Jacinta di Mase Management.

Following the story of a family over three generations, Cool Water explores themes of family secrets, intergenerational violence and trauma, redemption, colonisation, consumption, and the myth of progress and the destruction of natural landscapes and waterways.

Hachette publisher Vanessa Radnidge says, ‘Myfanwy is a breathtakingly brilliant writer and the novel is so beautifully written and powerfully told.’

Jones is the author of Leap (A&U), which was a finalist for the 2016 Miles Franklin Literary Award. Her debut novel The Rainy Season (Penguin) was shortlisted for the Melbourne Prize for Literature’s Best Writing Award in 2009.

Cool Water is set to be published in 2024.