An 18-year-old author has received a   ￡400,000 advance for her first novel, one of the biggest deals for a young author in British publishing history. Helen Oyeyemi, a first-year student at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, is now in the top bracket of British authors. Her novel The Icarus Girl concerns Jessamy, an eight-year-old genius who, while on a visit to relatives in Nigeria, meets Tilly Tilly, a friend whom only she can see.

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一名18岁作家的处女作获得高达40万英镑的预付款，这是英国出版史上年轻作家最昂贵的作品之一。海伦·欧耶米是剑桥基督圣体学院一年级学生，现已被列为英国杰出作家。她的小说《火箭女孩》的主人公是8岁的小神童杰瑟米，她在去尼日利亚探望亲戚时，邂逅了蒂莉·蒂莉——一个只有她才能看见的女孩。