Honey An addictive story of pop stardom

<p><i><b>I didn't like to perform. I liked to be loved.</b></i><br><br>'Like Daisy Jones soaked in Britney Spears' Curious'<b> HOLLY BOURNE<br></b><br>'It's a delightfully bubblegum novel of hot summer nostalgia'<b> LITHUB</b><br><br>'A sexy swagger of a debut'<b> EMMA STRAUB</b><br><br>It is 1997, and Amber Young has received a life-changing call. It's a chance thousands of girls would die for: the opportunity to join girl group Cloud9 in Los Angeles and escape her small town. She quickly finds herself in the orbits of fellow rising stars Gwen Morris, a driven singer-dancer, and Wes Kingston, a member of the biggest boy band in the world, ETA.<br><br>As Amber embarks on her solo career and her fame intensifies, she increasingly finds herself reduced to a body, a voice, an object. Surrounded by the wrong kind of people and driven by a desire for recognition and success, for love and sex, for agency and connection, Amber comes of age at a time when the kaleidoscope of public opinion can distort everything, and one mistake can shatter a career.<br><br><b>Inspired by the starlets of the 90s and noughties who became as infamous for their personal lives as their hypersexualised music videos and lyrics, <i>Honey</i> is a novel about the journey from girlhood to womanhood and how far we are willing to go in the pursuit of love . . .<br><br><u>Readers LOVE <i>Honey<br></i></u></b><br>'<i>Honey</i> is going to be one of THE books of the summer' <br>'A knockout debut novel' <br>'Daisy Jones meets 90s/00s early pop!'<br>'From start to finish the nostalgia I felt while reading this book was UNREAL!' <br>'This definitely gives Britney Spears, Mandy Moore and Christina Aguilera vibes'<br>'I was captivated every second' <br><b>'</b>My favourite book of the year so far, hands down' <br>'I loved each and every character'</p>