Honey by Isabel Banta

I didn't like to perform. I liked to be loved.

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 a girl group 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.

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.

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Hardback

Language: English
Extent: 336
Publish Date: 25 June 2024
ISBN: 9781804184165
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Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
Imprint: Zaffre