now you can quit reading grown-up books again

The Times has declared that the publishing industry's everlasting search for the next Harry Potter is over (again?) with today's feature on Stephenie Meyer, author of a series of vampire novels which have thwacked JK off the best-seller list in the US at last, thanks to the ardor of young American girls for sexy tales about a high school girl and her blood-hungry boyfriend who struggles to control his lust for her maidenhood and her red blood cells.

Will the teenagers of our fine nation, with their stultifying rocketing pregnancy rates, be equally enamoured, or will they just not buy (neither literally nor figuratively, you know?)  bloodthirsty morality tales? Waterstones must be gagging to find out.

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