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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Kelly Burke

Colleen Hoover apologises for ‘tone-deaf’ colouring book based on domestic violence novel

Colleen Hoover, pictured with her book It Ends With Us.
Colleen Hoover, pictured with her book It Ends With Us. Photograph: Chad Griffith/AP

Bestselling author Colleen Hoover has apologised after she announced plans to publish a colouring book based on one of her bestselling novels about domestic violence.

The US author of It Ends With Us announced The Official It Ends With Us Coloring Book on social media on Thursday. But after a furious backlash from readers, she apologised that same day, writing that she could “absolutely see” how the idea was “tone-deaf”. She said her publishers would not be proceeding with the book.

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