Zoella retreats from web amid row about ghostwritten novel Girl Online

YouTube blogger Zoe Sugg asks fans for patience while she takes a few days off, saying book controversy was ‘clouding up my brain’

The YouTube blogger Zoella has revealed she is temporarily quitting the internet amid controversy over her record-breaking debut novel.

Zoe Sugg’s Girl Online, about a teenage blogger and her relationship with an American musician, sold 78,109 copies in its first week - the highest first-week sales since Nielsen BookScan began collecting data in 1998.

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