Today is unquestionably buzzing with excitement.” “Meyer’s lasting impact on a generation of readers is palpable again today with the release of Midnight Sun, bringing with it the opportunity to re-explore the original series or dive in for the first time. At a time when bookshops have only fairly recently reopened, we hope this will be a really significant publication for retailers.”Īt Waterstones, children’s buyer Florentyna Martin said the book had been an immediate bestseller. Now, more than a decade after that leak, they get to hear Edward’s full story. “Fans had been able to read a few chapters years ago, so they’d had a taster of what is to come but wanted more. “Midnight Sun was always going to be a big deal,” said publisher James Gurbutt. One million hardbacks have already been printed in the US, while in the UK, publisher Atom Books has printed 300,000 copies, and is anticipating a “huge” first week of UK sales. Meyer scrapped plans for the book in 2008 after a draft of her manuscript leaked on the internet, saying at the time that “what happened was a huge violation of my rights as an author, not to mention me as a human being”, and that she was setting the manuscript to one side.Īfter releasing a gender-swapped version of the story, in which vegetarian vampire Edward and human teenager and love interest Bella were replaced by Edythe Cullen and Beau Swan, Meyer announced in May that she would finally publish Midnight Sun on 4 August. Twelve years after Stephenie Meyer put Midnight Sun, her telling of the Twilight saga from vampire Edward Cullen’s perspective, “on hold indefinitely”, the novel has finally been published – and is already topping book charts.
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