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I devoured Daisy Jones & The Six in a day, falling head over heels for it. Taylor Jenkins Reid transported me into the magic of the 70s music scene in a way I ll never forget. The characters are beautifully layered and complex. Daisy and the band captured my heart, and they re sure to capture yours, too. Reese Witherspoon

Backstage intrigue is the engine of Daisy Jones & The Six. . . . [A] celebration of American mythmaking. Vogue

Each character is compelling but Daisy Jones is the star. She s a blazing talent who is unapologetic in her sexuality and lives life on her own terms. . . . Like a poignant song with lyrics that speak to your soul, Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid will transport you to another place and time. Associated Press

Reid s wit and gift for telling a perfectly paced story make this one of the most enjoyably readable books of the year. Nylon 

Wildly delicious.   Entertainment Weekly

This stylish and propulsive novel, presented in the form of an oral history, explores the ascent of a (fictional) hard-partying, iconic 1970s rock band. It reads like the transcript of a particularly juicy episode of VH1 s Behind the Music. The New York Times Book Review (Editors Choice)

Daisy Jones & The Six is just plain fun from cover to cover. . . . Her characters feel so vividly real, you ll wish you could stream their albums, YouTube their concerts, and google their wildest moments to see them for yourself. HelloGiggles

[A] juicy tell-all-style page-turner. Bustle

Evocative . . . brilliant. Romper

Prepare to fall for Taylor Jenkins Reid s newest novel, Daisy Jones & The Six. PopSugar

Reid s novel so resembles a memoir of a real band and conjures such true-to-life images of the seventies music scene that readers will think they re listening to Fleetwood Mac or Led Zeppelin. Reid is unsurpassed in her ability to create complex characters working through emotions that will make your toes curl. Booklist (starred review)

Reid delivers a stunning story of sex, drugs, and rock n roll in the 1960s and 70s in this expertly wrought novel. Mimicking the style and substance of a tell-all celebrity memoir . . . Reid creates both story line and character gold. The book s prose is propulsive, original, and often raw. Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Reid is a stunning writer whose characters are unforgettable and whose stories are deeply emotional. . . . Her most gripping novel yet. Emily Giffin, author of All We Ever Wanted 

Reid s writing is addictive and all-consuming. Filled with passion, complexity, and fascinating detail, Daisy Jones & The Six felt so real, I had to remind myself that it was fiction. Jill Santopolo, author of The Light We Lost 

From the very first page you know this book is something special. Taylor Jenkins Reid brings insight and poetry to a story that s utterly unique and deeply authentic, one that transports you to world of seventies rock with all its genius and temptation and creativity so completely it feels like you re there. Katherine Center, author of How to Walk Away  

Raw, emotive, and addictively voyeuristic, Daisy Jones & The Six is imbued with the same anguished heart that fuels the very best rock n roll. Like my favorite albums, this book will live with me for a very long time. Steven Rowley, author of Lily and the Octopus 

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The Groupie

Daisy

Jones

1965 ­1972

Daisy Jones was born in 1951 and grew up in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California. The daughter of Frank Jones, the well-­known British painter, and Jeanne LeFevre, a French model, Daisy started to make a name for herself in the late sixties as a young teenager on the Sunset Strip.

Elaine Chang (biographer, author of Daisy Jones: Wild Flower): Here is what is so captivating about Daisy Jones even before she was Daisy Jones.

You ve got a rich white girl, growing up in L.A. She s gorgeous ­even as a child. She has these stunning big blue eyes ­dark, cobalt blue. One of my favorite anecdotes about her is that in the eighties a colored-­contact company actually created a shade called Daisy Blue. She s got copper-­red hair that is thick and wavy and . . . takes up so much space. And then her cheekbones almost seem swollen, that s how defined they are. And she s got an incredible voice that she doesn t cultivate, never takes a lesson. She s born with all the money in the world, access to whatever she wants ­artists, drugs, clubs ­anything and everything at her disposal.

But she has no one. No siblings, no extended family in Los Angeles. Two parents who are so into their own world that they are all but indifferent to her existence. Although, they never shy away from making her pose for their artist friends. That s why there are so many paintings and photos of Daisy as a child ­the artists that came into that home saw Daisy Jones, saw how gorgeous she was, and wanted to capture her. It s telling that there is no Frank Jones piece of Daisy. Her father is too busy with his male nudes to pay much attention to his daughter. And in general, Daisy spends her childhood rather alone.

But she s actually a very gregarious, outgoing kid ­Daisy would often ask to get her hair cut just because she loved her hairdresser, she would ask neighbors if she could walk their dogs, there was even a family joke about the time Daisy tried to bake a birthday cake for the mailman. So this is a girl that desperately wants to connect. But there s no one in her life who is truly interested in who she is, especially not her parents. And it really breaks her. But it is also how she grows up to become an icon.

We love broken, beautiful people. And it doesn t get much more obviously broken and more classically beautiful than Daisy Jones.

So it makes sense that Daisy starts to find herself on the Sunset Strip. This glamorous, seedy place.

Daisy Jones (singer, Daisy Jones & The Six): I could walk down to the Strip from my house. I was about fourteen, sick of being stuck in the house, just looking for something to do. I wasn t old enough to get into any of the bars and clubs but I went anyway.

I remember bumming a cigarette off of a roadie for the Byrds when I was pretty young. I learned quickly that people thought you were older if you didn t wear your bra. And sometimes I d wear a bandanna headband like the cool girls had on. I wanted to fit in with the groupies on the sidewalk, with their joints and their flasks and all of that.

So I bummed a cigarette from this roadie outside the Whisky a Go Go one night ­the first time I d ever had one and I tried to pretend I did it all the time. I held the cough in my throat and what have you ­and I was flirting with him the best I could. I m embarrassed to think about it now, how clumsy I probably was.

But eventually, some guy comes up to the roadie and says, We gotta get inside and set up the amps. And he turns to me and says, You coming? And that s how I snuck into the Whisky for the first time.

I stayed out that

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup from the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Malibu Rising

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An explosive, dynamite, down-and-dirty look at a fictional rock band told in an interview style that gives it irresistible surface energy. Elin Hilderbrand

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Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until 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 it s the rock n roll she loves most. By the time she s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.

Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she s 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 that 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 with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.