Alexa von Hirschberg, publishing director at Weidenfeld & Nicolson, has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights for The Original Daughter by Jemimah Wei from Jessica Bullock at The Wylie Agency. US rights were sold to Lee Boudreaux at Doubleday. The Original Daughter is a literary debut set in working-class Singapore about an intoxicating relationship between two sisters over two decades. It will publish in spring 2025. The synopsis says: “Without warning, Genevieve Yang’s life is upend...
