Ellie Palmer’s debut FOUR WEEKENDS AND A FUNERAL, pitched as a twist on While You Were Sleeping, in which a post-double-mastectomy BRCA1 carrier attends her ex-boyfriend’s funeral to find that no one knows he dumped her and agrees to play the role of grieving girlfriend for his family, but never counted on falling for his grumpy best friend, to Kate Dresser at Putnam, in a six-figure deal, at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in fall 2024, by Laura Bradford at Bradford Literary Agency (world English).