Honey

Author: Isabel Banta

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 27^th June 2024 by Bonnier Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 384 pages
198mm x 129mm | 384g

I didnt like to perform. I liked to be loved.

Like Daisy Jones soaked in Britney Spears Curious HOLLY BOURNEA sexy swagger of a debut EMMA STRAUBFull of drama, heartbreak, ambition and desire KATHERINE WEBBER TSANGIt is 1997, and Amber Young has received a life-changing call. Its 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.

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.

Inspired by the starlets of the 90s and noughties who became as infamous for their personal lives as their hypersexualised music videos and lyrics, Honey is a novel about the journey from girlhood to womanhood and how far we are willing to go in the pursuit of love . . .