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Tough Love (novel)
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Tough Love

Cover of the hardback edition
Author Kerry Katona
Fanny Blake
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Ebury Press
Publication date 18 October 2007
Media type Print (Hardback, Paperback)
Pages 320 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN ISBN 0091923190 (first edition, hardback)
Followed by ''The Footballer's Wife''

Tough Love is a novel written by Kerry Katona. It was published on 18 October 2007.[1] It is the first in a trilogy of novels following the Crompton family.
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Plot summary

Leanne Crompton is a successful glamour model. But when she is sacked by her modelling agency because shes gotten too old she soon finds herself penniless. She decides to move her and her seven year child Kia back to her home town and to her wayward family. Leanne's mother, Tracy is an extreme alcoholic; and her two sisters, Jodie and Karina, want to escape Leanne's shadow; while her younger brother, Scott, is being cheated on by his girlfriend Charly. They all seem so lost in life, including Leanne, except for her older brother, Markie, who has just been released from prison. Having to start from the bottom once again proves tough for Leanne especially due to the secret she burdens, the celebrity identity of her daughter Kia. She questions whether or not to reveal her secret to her mum, who has a habit of selling stories to the newspapers. But before she gets the chance tell anyone, Kia's dad catches up to Leanne and tries unsuccessfully to silence her forever.

Critical Reception

The book received mixed reviews. In The News.com said of the novel "The characters may be textbook, the plot predictable and the 'explosive secret' guessable around page five, but the basic package is there."[2] While Henry Sutton of The Mirror said "Tough Love comes laden with grit, and, thankfully, some humour, plus heaps of diverse characters who might not quite hold your attention."[3]

Twilight (novel)
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Twilight
Stephenie Meyer's Twilight
Cover of Twilight
Author Stephenie Meyer
Cover artist Gail Doobinin (design)
Roger Hagadone (photograph)
Country United States
Language English
Series Twilight series
Genre(s) Young adult, Fantasy, Romance
Publisher Little, Brown
Publication date October 5, 2005
Media type Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
e-Book (Kindle)
Audio Book (CD)
Pages 512[1] (Hardcover)
544[2](Paperback)
ISBN ISBN 0-316-16017-2
Followed by New Moon

Twilight is a young-adult vampire-romance novel written by author Stephenie Meyer. It was originally published in 2005 in hardback. It is the first book of the Twilight series, and introduces seventeen-year-old Isabella "Bella" Swan who moves from Phoenix, Arizona, to Forks, Washington, and finds her life in danger when she falls in love with a vampire, Edward Cullen. The novel is followed by New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn.
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Plot summary

Isabella "Bella" Swan moves from sunny Phoenix, Arizona to rainy Forks, Washington to live with her father, Charlie, while her mother, Renée, travels with her new husband, Phil Dwyer, a minor league baseball player. Bella attracts much attention at her new school and is quickly befriended by several students. Much to her dismay, several boys compete for shy Bella's attention.

When Bella is seated next to Edward Cullen in class on her first day of school, Edward seems utterly repulsed by her. However, over the next few days Edward warms up to her, and their newfound relationship reaches a climax when Bella is nearly run over by a fellow classmate's van in the school parking lot. Seemingly defying the laws of reality, Edward saves her life when he instantaneously appears next to her and stops the van with his bare hands.

Bella becomes hellbent on figuring out how Edward saved her life, and constantly pesters him with questions. After tricking a family friend, Jacob Black, into telling her local tribal legends, Bella concludes that Edward and his family are vampires who drink animal blood rather than human. Edward confesses that he initially avoided Bella because the scent of her blood was so desirable to him. Over time, Edward and Bella fall in love.

Their relationship is thrown into chaos when another vampire coven sweeps into Forks. James, a tracker vampire who is intrigued by the Cullens' relationship with a human, wants to hunt Bella for sport. The Cullens attempt to distract the tracker by splitting up Bella and Edward, and Bella is sent to hide in a hotel in Phoenix. There, Bella receives a phone call from James, who claims he is holding her mother captive. When Bella surrenders herself, James attacks her, but Edward, along with the other Cullens, rescues Bella and kills James. Once they realize that James has bitten Bella's hand, Edward sucks the venom from her system before it can spread and transform her into a vampire, and she is then sent to a hospital. Upon returning to Forks, Bella and Edward attend their school prom and Bella expresses her desire to become a vampire, which Edward refuses.

Cover

Stephenie Meyer has stated that the apple on the cover represents the forbidden fruit from the book of Genesis. It symbolizes Bella and Edward's love, which is forbidden, similar to the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, as is implied by the quote from Genesis 2:17 that is quoted at the beginning of the book. It also represents Bella's knowledge of what good and evil are, and the choice that she has in partaking of the "forbidden fruit", Edward, or choosing not to see him.[3]