Ravi Mirchandani scales first Summit with six-figure pre-empt, as deals fall across the globe

Ravi Mirchandani has made his first acquisition at Summit Books, a six-figure pre-empt for Harvard professor Tara K. Menon’s "propulsive" debut.

This is the initial buy for the Summit publisher who, after a decade at Picador, joined the UK arm of the Simon & Schuster imprint in September when it was revived on both sides of the Atlantic. Mirchandani acquired UK, Commonwealth and translation rights to Menon’s Under Water from Sebastian Godwin at David Godwin Associates. Separately, North American rights were sold by Godwin to Becky Saletan at Riverhead.

Under Water is described as a "striking novel reckoning with grief, trauma and the convulsions of nature", which charts female friendship across two seismic events: the tsunami of 2004 in Thailand and the arrival of Hurricane Sandy in Manhattan in 2012.

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