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BOOK NEWS: Rough Justice by Kerry Katona
Kerry Katona’s first novel, Tough Love, is published this week, and the follow up, Rough Justice, is already on Amazon for pre-order even though it isn’t published until next April. Rough Justice is the story of Charly Metcalfe whose footballer boyfriend, Joel is murdered, putting Charly and her family in the frame.
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Posted by Nicola pedley on October 23, 2007 in Book News, British Authors, Celebrity Authors | Permalink
Comments
I hate to say it but that actually sounds like it's worth picking up in Asda!
Posted by: Stella | Oct 23, 2007 5:28:08 PM
I wouldn't worry. I'm guessing she didn't write it.
Posted by: Keris | Oct 23, 2007 6:22:54 PM
Well if it's written anything like her column she used to have in Hello (or whatever) it'd be painful but a ghost writer should make a half-way decent job, surely?
Posted by: Stella | Oct 23, 2007 7:00:18 PM
I read Tough Love and although it is supremely trashy, it was really good! Embarassing to read on the tube though...
Posted by: Katie | Oct 23, 2007 11:17:58 PM
I read an interview with her where she said she got too upset reading her autobiography so her husband had to read it instead. Reading, mind. Not, writing!
And, yes, she admitted she had a ghost writer for the novels. But just for, you know, putting the paragraphs in...
Posted by: Keris | Oct 24, 2007 8:58:05 AM
Kate Mosse (Labyrinth & Orange Prize founder) reviewed it in The Times this weekend and was quite positive. (Though she did point out teh ghostwriter wasn't credited)
Posted by: Nicola Pedley | Oct 24, 2007 10:52:16 AM
Why would Kerry Katona read her own autobiography? Did she think she was going to find out something new she missed when she was writing it?
Posted by: Stella | Oct 24, 2007 11:34:51 AM
I'm always skeptical when the author's name is bigger than the title. Maybe she got all emotional reading her autobiography because that was ghosted too and she didn't actually write it.
Posted by: tvor | Oct 24, 2007 12:58:46 PM
Exactly, tvor. Duh, Stella ;)
Posted by: Keris | Oct 25, 2007 7:49:12 AM
