Bad Banana

Doubleday wins three-way auction for Eliana Ramage’s ‘expansive coming-of-age’ debut Rights Apr 23, 2025 by Heloise Wood Eliana Ramage © Leah Margulies Doubleday has acquired To the Moon and Back , the debut novel by Eliana Ramage, in a three-way auction. Editorial director Bobby Mostyn-Owen acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, from Caspian Dennis at Abner Stein following a three-way bidding war, on behalf of Meredith Kaffel Simonoff at The Gernert Company. Doubleday will publish in hardback in February 2026. Margo Shickmanter at Avid Reader Press will publish in the US this autumn, as will Simon & Schuster Canada. The synopsis reads: “Steph Harper is on the run. When she was six, her mother ran – with Steph and her younger sister in tow – from an abusive husband into the arms of a small Cherokee community, where she hoped they might finally belong. But Steph soon sets her sights as far away as she can get, vowing that she will let nothing in...