The River Within
Karen Powell
Key Selling Points
• Northern writing! Author was awarded the TLC Northern Writers Fiction Award
• Shakespearean hook: loosely based on Hamlet, it gives voice to the women characters
• Major media campaign: press, social networks, radio
• Author tours & bookshop events – live and/or virtual
Target readership
• Readers of literary fiction, general fiction, book club fiction, family drama
• Readers of Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, especially The Remains of the Day, Helen Dunmore, Kate Atkinson, Jane Gardam, Jojo Moyes, Sarah Dunant, Maggie O’Farrell
• For fans of Downton Abbey and The Crown