- Blending themes of lost innocence, sexual awakening, and triumph over loss, The Effects Of Light follows in the tradition of such bestselling first novels as Girl with a Pearl Earring (Dutton/Plume, 1999), and the #1 New York Times bestseller The Lovely Bones (Little, Brown, 2002), with over 2.8 million hardcover copies in print. - A dazzling new voice, Miranda Beverly-Whittemore is a graduate of Vassar College and the recipient of several literary awards. Most recently, she worked for the 92nd Street Y's Poets and Writers program. - Foreign rights have already been sold in Italy and Poland.