Book Second Best

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  • Edelweiss DRC and physical galleys available for booksellers, press, media and influencers.
  • Pitching for features and reviews in national and regional press, including the New York Review of Books and Washington Post.
  • Opportunity to capitalise on the 25 year anniversary of Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone, with articles, reviews and interviews.
  • Targeting high profile endorsements from writers such as Nick Hornby, Jonathan Coe, Marian Keyes, Sarah Winman, as well as figures from the Harry Potter world: Jim Dale, Stephen Fry, Tom Felton and Daniel Radcliffe.
  • Targeted promotion in Harry Potter spaces on social media and forums using paid advertising.
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'An exquisitely bittersweet comedy of life's missed opportunities' Jonathan Coe, author of Bournville 


A magical imagining of the fate of a fictional boy whose life is shaped forever when he loses out on the role of Harry Potter.

It's 1999. Martin Hill is ten years old, crazy about Arsenal and has a minor crush on a girl named Betty. Then he makes it to the final two in the casting for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

In the end, the other boy is picked for the role of a lifetime. A devastated Martin tries to move on with his life. But how can he escape his failure, especially when it's the most famous film series in the world? 

Foenkinos’s smash-hit Second Best is a playful, poignant story about fate, loss and how the lives we wish we’d led might not be all they’re cracked up to be . . .

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Published
2024
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English
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