I’ve so long admired this list and am honoured to have Flight be a part of it. The author added: “I’m so very thrilled to be working with Judith and the whole Scribner team.

Strong’s second novel follows Elizabeth, a 34-year-old academic and mother of two, who finds herself living a life she never imagined. Flight by Lynn Steger Strong - Suspenseful, dazzling and moving Rumaan AlamArresting and powerful Lily KingBreathtakingly propulsive and insightful. Flight is such a stunning novel and I can’t wait to share it with UK readers.” WANT by Lynn Steger Strong RELEASE DATE: JA deeply overwhelmed mother navigates the banality, joy, and turmoil of her life. Through this fractured family trying to find their way forward, she explores the fragility and power of human connection, as well as themes of art, ambition, privilege and survival. The story of a mother, living in a highly desirable and highly overpriced Brooklyn neighborhood but struggling under the weight of student loans, medical bills, an estranged relationship with her. “Lynn’s trademark observations about life really strike a chord. When my first book came out, I had this crippling sense that I wrote a book about rich white people, says Lynn Steger Strong. Long said: “I read Lynn’s previous novel Want (Henry Holt) in lockdown, devouring it in a day, and Flight is every inch as wonderful and compassionate, with characters who feel deeply authentic. But when a local child goes missing, the publisher synopsis continues, they are forced to come together. The novel follows three adult siblings and their families as they gather for their first Christmas since the passing of their matriarch, and tensions rise as they question how to be a family and uphold traditions without her.

It will be published in November 2022 by Scribner in the UK and by Kate Nintzel at Mariner Books in the US. Judith Long, assistant fiction editor at Simon & Schuster UK, acquired the novel from Caspian Dennis at Abner Stein, on behalf of Sarah Bowlin at Aevitas Creative Management. Simon & Schuster UK has signed Lynn Steger Strong’s Flight, the story of a fractured family trying to move forward after a loved one dies and a local child goes missing.

Want by Lynn Steger Strong