Italian rights to THINGS TO DO WHEN IT’S RAINING by bestselling author Marissa Stapley sold on a pre-empt to Sperling & Kupfer Editori by Erica Berla of Berla & Griffini on behalf of Samantha Haywood. Rights previously to Nita Pronovost at Simon & Schuster Canada, Brittany Lavery at Graydon House for US, both editions publishing simultaneously in Spring 2018. And Rowohlt Verlag acquired at auction and published first in Germany in Nov 2017. For readers of Jojo Moyes and Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, comes a poignant generational story about Mae Summers and Gabe Broadbent, childhood best friends and 
sweethearts who are reunited as adults at the idyllic Summers’ Inn and dealing with aging parents, heartbreak and secrets that will either bring them together or forever leave them as two islands. For UK, translation and tv/film contact: samantha@transatlanticagency.com
