Published by Penguin Random House

AFTER her vastly successful historical fiction full of 1950s Hollywood glamour – The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo,Taylor Jenkins Reid has shifted focus to rock bands of the 1970s for her next.

This, like her previous work, demonstrates a unique writing skill in creating fake celebrities that begin to feel real. She captures the essence of this type of person so well it’s like they’ve always been there as a part of our culture, but try to find a Daisy Jones and The Six album and you’ll feel a slight disappointment when remembering it doesn’t exist. Fortunately, Amazon Prime are currently working on a miniseries based on the story.

Daisy Jones, daughter of a wealthy couple, her father a painter and her mother a model, has a stunning natural beauty and singing talent but grew up without their attention or care. To avoid loneliness she hangs about with musicians who don’t care about her age, and the drugs and alcohol flow too fast, habits that follow her through life.

The only true solace she finds is in writing song lyrics, but when she does sign a record deal it’s to sing what’s written for her. That is, until she meets The Six.

The Six are a talented rock band on the rise to fame created by brothers, lead guitarist Warren and songwriter and frontman Billy Dunne. With Daisy’s first album growing in popularity and The Six in need of a real hit single she’s invited to help them on a song named Honeycomb. It is with this song that everything changes.

When Daisy and Billy sing together that there is something uniquely captivating about the combination of their talents, even if they do fight almost every moment and come to hate each other. They begin a chaotic story that was never meant to be the one told but that’s picked up by Rolling Stone and helps to skyrocket their fame instantly. The question everyone asks seeing them perform with each other, is it truly hate or love that Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne have for each other.

Billy’s frustration with Daisy stems from their shared addictions but where Billy is sober and working on his marriage, Daisy is the furthest thing from it, a danger that both intimidates and calls to him.

As the band create an unforgettable album and rise to unimaginable heights of fame, so do the personal problems they face within their group.

While Daisy and Billy always see themselves at the centre of attention, in this book great care is taken with the way that impacts the other characters and their often unnoticed conflicts. Every band member is given space to tell their story in this fast paced interview style novel.

On surface this is a rock n roll novel that feels like reading celebrity gossip, but at its is a tale of addiction, unrequited love and what goes on behind the scenes of seemingly perfect lives. This is an unforgettable novel for any music lover.