Solaris is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Anna by Sammy H.K Smith
31st March 2020
Solaris is delighted to announce the acquisition of contemporary dystopian novel, Anna, by Sammy H.K Smith which will be released in summer 2021.
Editor Kate Coe acquired World English rights in Smith’s new novel from the author.
About the book:
Strength comes in many forms, and Anna tells the story of one woman who becomes someone else in order to free herself. Anna is a possession. Meek. Willing. Subservient. Raped. Branded. Strong.
In a post-apocalyptic society she is owned by the man named Will, shielded from the world of struggles and possessions by his care. He loves her, protects her, and then breaks her. Anna is obedient, dutiful, and compliant. Anna does not know her place in the world. When she falls pregnant, Anna leaves her name behind, and finds the strength to run. But the past is after her.
Author Sammy H.K Smith
“I am utterly delighted that Anna has found a home with Rebellion, and can’t wait to work with the team and bring the story to readers. Anna is about one woman’s fight for survival in a damaged, socially regressed and dysfunctional society only a few steps from our own where ‘might is right’ and identity lost. Anna explores issues of subjugation and abuse, but also hope and strength.”
Editor Kate Coe had this to say:
“Anna is a wonderful, unsettling, dystopian fiction that’s terrifyingly close to our own lives – or our own experiences. It completely gripped me from the first page, and I’m thrilled to have acquired it for Solaris.”
Sammy H.K Smith lives and works in Oxfordshire UK as a police detective. When not working she spends time with her children, husband and pets, renovates her house, and inadvertently kills plants. A keen writer and lover of all things science fiction and fantasy, she’s often found balancing a book, a laptop, a child, and a cat whilst watching Netflix.
For review copies, information, or interviews for Anna please contact Hanna Waigh, Fiction – PR & Marketing Manager: hanna.waigh@rebellion.co.uk.