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More than million copies sold world wide When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews successful entrepreneur Christian Grey she finds him very attractive and deeply intimidating Convinced that their meeting went badly she tries to put him out of her mind - until he turns up at the store where she works part-time and invites her out Unworldly and innocent Ana is shocked to find she wants this man And when he warns her to keep her distance it only makes her want him more As they embark on a passionate love affair Ana discovers more about her own desires as well as the dark secrets Christian keeps hidden away from public view
About the Author
E L James is an incurable romantic and a self-confessed fangirl. After twenty-five years of working in television, she decided to pursue a childhood dream and write stories that readers could take to their hearts. The result was the controversial and sensuous romance Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. In 2015, she published the #1 bestseller Grey, the story of Fifty Shades of Grey from the perspective of Christian Grey, and in 2017, the chart-topping Darker, the second part of the Fifty Shades story from Christian's point of view. Her books have been published in fifty languages and have sold more than 165 million copies worldwide. E L James has been recognised as one of Time magazine's 'Most Influential People in the World' and Publishers Weekly's 'Person of the Year'. Fifty Shades of Grey stayed on The New York Times Best Seller List for 133 consecutive weeks. Fifty Shades Freed won the Choice Award (2012) , and Fifty Shades of Grey was selected as one of the 100 Great Reads, as voted by readers, in PBS's The Great American Read (2018) . Darker has been long-listed for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award.She co-produced for Universal Studios the Fifty Shades movies, which made more than a billion dollars at the box office. The third instalment, Fifty Shades Freed, won the People's Choice Award for Drama in 2018. E L James is blessed with two wonderful sons and lives with her husband, the novelist and screenwriter Niall Leonard, and their West Highland terriers in the leafy suburbs of West London.
