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368 pages | Trade PaperbackPENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE TITLE WAVE PICK. A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous break up. Beautifully layered and complexI devouredDaisy Jones & The Sixin a day, falling head over heels for it. Daisy and the band captured my heart.Reese Witherspoon
Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six, but nobody knows the real reason why they split at the absolute height of their popularityuntil now.
Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but its the rock and roll she loves most. By the time shes twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.
Another band getting noticed is The Six, led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out shes pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.
Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.
The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level withDaisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.
Story Locale:1970s Los Angeles, California
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