Shadowplay

TARGET CONSUMER

• Literary Fiction
• Historical Fiction
• Theater
• Gothic, Horror, Supernatural

KEY SELLING POINTS

• Winner "Novel of the Year" An Irish Post Book Awards; Shortlisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize, the 2020 Dalkey Literary Awards, and the 2019 Costa Book Awards
• Reviews confirmed in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and others
• Hardcover publication
• For theater enthusiasts who are currently unable to attend shows
• The cult of celebrity meets literary ambition in Victorian London; Shadowplay is a must for lovers of the theater and late-Victorian/Edwardian era
• TV rights for a series based on O'Connor's Star of the Sea and Redemption Falls were recently sold.
• New York Times and international best-selling author
• For fans of: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson; The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee; Little by Edward Carey; The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry; The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton; The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova; Arthur and George by Julian Barnes; Dracula and other tales of the supernatural
• Based on a true story, real people
• Sir Henry Irving (the first actor ever to be knighted): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Irving
• Dame Ellen Terry (her career as a leading lady lasted seven decades): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Terry
• Bram Stoker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Stoker