''Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World'' is a memoir by Lynne Spears that she co-wrote with Lorilee Craker. The memoir is about Lynne's daughters: Britney Spears, Britney and Jamie Lynn Spears, Jamie Lynn. The book was announced in 2007 and published on September 16, 2008, by Thomas Nelson (publisher), Thomas Nelson, a Christian media, Christian publisher. Prior to the book's release, the ''National Enquirer'' leaked several of the book's revelations, including that Britney had started drinking alcohol at age thirteen, soon after she began appearing on American variety show ''The All-New Mickey Mouse Club''. When Britney was seventeen, her talent manager Larry Rudolph promoted her as a virgin who continued to shun premarital sex while dating teen idol Justin Timberlake. Sam Lutfi, a former talent manager of Britney's, began a defamation lawsuit against Lynne for alleging in ''Through the Storm'' that he had isolated and drugged Britney. An ''Entertainment Tonight'' article by James Herman calls ''Through the Storm'' a "jaw-dropping unauthorized biography, tell-all book". In an ''Entertainment Weekly'' review, Adrienne Day writes that the book only provides information that can be found on Wikipedia, therefore it’s useless, and showed the gap between mother and daughter.

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