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Highlights:
- Film
Rights optioned by Revolution Pictures (Julia Roberts' production
company).
- Foreign rights sold in six countries.
- Audio rights sold to Highbridge Audio
- First Rate Fiction Selection of Quality Paperback Direct
Book Club (UK)
- Interview with Harry Mount at The Telegraph
- Hear the author reading an excerpt on Penguin Podcast
(www.penguinpodcast.blogs.com)
- Eye
Contact or articles by Cammie will be featured in upcoming
issues of: More (author Q and A), Reader's
Digest (full length feature), Good
Housekeeping (Blessings Essay and Book Babes--online), Parenting
Magazine, Stanford Alumni Magazine and
more.
- Booksense Top Pick--July 2006
- Featured alternate selection of
Literary Guild of America, Mystery Guild, and Book of the Month
Club. Literary Guild will offer Eye Contact in their Insider
Discovery Program.
- Reading GroupGuides.com--Featured selection
along with a CONTEST TO WIN up to 12 copies of Eye Contact
and a chat with author! (please see their website for details.)
- Amazon
Shorts Feature: "Coming Home To Autism"
"Eye Contact is a good
yarn with a cast of beguiling characters and twists. We're left
uncertain about what Adam saw, and we begin a tense, teasing
stumble to the truth. McGovern's trick is to take
the aching hope to hear from an autistic child and hang the whole
plot on it, so that tantalizing frustration drives the reader
as much as it drives a parent."
-- Michael
Blastland, The Independent
""A fascinating thriller...wise
and moving, as well as gripping."
-- London Sunday
Times
"A compulsively addictive
thriller...Never has a murder mystery been more mysterious than
when the only witness to the killing is autistic. How
do you go about prising open a mind that is jammed shut? The
sheer oddness and unpredictability of the autistic mind is a
peerless device for sparkling plot moves. At one chilling moment,
Adam's unbroken voice out of the blue drops several octaves to
give a perfect impression of a grown man near the murder scene,
saying "Watch yourself," but he can't say who said
it or where." -- Harry Mount, The
Telegraph
"Twin mysteries lie at the
heart of this riveting and unforgettable novel: the identity
and motives of a child-killer, and the inscrutable workings
of an autistic boy's mind. Only
a writer like McGovern, whose brilliant gift for storytelling
keeps pace with her unflinching emotional acuity, could take
on both mysteries and succeed with such power and grace."
-- Julie Orringer, author of How To Breathe
Underwater "In the tradition of The Curious Incident
of the Dog in the Nighttime , Cammie McGovern delivers a
compelling murder mystery that intrigues as much by what it hides
as by what it so deftly reveals-the stark, poignant, deeply intimate
moments in the lives of people living with autism and those
who love them."
-- Patricia Stacey, author of The Boy Who Loved Windows |
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