Well, this is awkward. It is being reported that E L James new novel Grey has been stolen just a week before it's release date. Stolen.
Someone - male or female, we don't know - was clearly so desperate to get their hands on the smutty novel that they've knicked it, leading to an investigation by Kent Police.
The book went missing from a Penguin Random house office with the police confirming: "Officers are making inquiries after receiving a report that a book had been stolen."
Author E.L. James’ erotic novels became a huge phenomenon with the S&M trilogy shifting over 125 million copies.
Then Sam Taylor Johnson continued the Fifty Shades of Grey legacy with an epic film production starring the hunky Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson.
The new book, Grey, will be written from the perspective of Christian Grey.
Police hope to find the thief and recover the missing copy before spoilers are anonymously uploaded to the web, or even worse, the copy is duplicated and sold prior to the big reveal on June 18th. Does this mean E.L. James may have to re-write the novel?
Maisie Bovingdon