In the US, publisher Scholastic announced that more than 2m copies of the Cursed Child were sold in the first 48 hours, from an initial US print run of 4.5m copies. There’s no doubt about it this will be our biggest book of the year.” And now, the 8th Harry Potter story is bringing the magic back to London’s West End. (Warning: Spoilers ahead) In fact, writer Jack Thorne was responsible. “By the end of this first week, we expect to exceed The Lost Symbol sales and to match the lifetime sales of our bestselling script book ever, An Inspector Calls by JB Priestley. There’s magic in every moment at Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the most awarded new play in history and one of the most defining pop culture events of the decade ( Forbes ). Rowling write Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Surprisingly, Rowling was not the main writer on this script. “After just two days’ sales, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is already our biggest-selling hardback since Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol in 2009,” said Waterstones buying director Kate Skipper. The magazine predicted that if the playscript continues to sell at this rate, it will become the title with the second biggest single-week sales, behind Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which sold 1.8m copies of the children’s edition, and 780,000 copies of the adult edition in July 2007. The record was previously held by EL James’s erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey, which sold 664,478 copies in a week in 2012. Little, Brown said they made the Cursed Child play the fastest-selling playscript ever, and the fastest-selling book published this decade.Īccording to the Bookseller magazine, the sales of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child have already beaten the biggest single-week sale of any title this decade. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: Sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.The playscript for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child was originally released as a 'special rehearsal edition' alongside the opening of Jack Thorne’s play in London’s West End in summer 2016.
Publisher Little, Brown, which released the script of the eighth Harry Potter story at one minute past midnight on Sunday 31 July, announced the sales on Wednesday morning. Harry Potter fansite SnitchSeeker spoke to the. For the anniversary, four special editions of the book will be released, each one representing a different Hogwarts house.JK Rowling has proved that she still has the magic touch after the script of her dramatised story, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, sold more than 680,000 print copies in the UK in just three days - making it the fastest-selling book since the last Harry Potter title. The upcoming script book for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will not receive an audiobook adaptation in the foreseeable future. The show debuts at the Palace Theatre on 30th July, with Jamie Parker, Paul Thornley and Noma Dumezweni playing Harry, Ron and Hermione respectivelyĪlong with this new script coming out later this year, 2017 marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, the series’ first novel. Harry’s youngest son, Albus, is at the story’s centre as he struggles with his family’s legacy. Read 4 reviews from the world's largest community for readers.
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The plot finds Harry Potter 19 years after the end of the original series working as an Auror at the Ministry of Magic, while his three children all attend Hogwarts. The play is the official eighth story in Harry Potter canon and is written by Rowling in collaboration with Jack Thorne and John Tiffany. Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, Parts I And II (Special Rehearsal Edition): The Official Script Book Of The West End Production.
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