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Honey

By Isabel Banta

A coming of age story that follows a pop star as she skyrockets to fame during the Y2K era, for fans of Emma Cline’s The Girls and Taylor Jenkins Reid.

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Adult fiction
Published: 25/06/2024
ISBN number: 9781804184165
Price: £16.99
Imprint: Zaffre
Length: 336 pages
Edition: Hardback
Genre: Coming of age Self-discovery

Honey

By Isabel Banta

Buy this title

Hardback
Audio

Details

Adult fiction
Published: 25/06/2024
ISBN number: 9781804184165
Price: £16.99
Imprint: Zaffre
Length: 336 pages
Edition: Hardback
Genre: Coming of age Self-discovery

A coming of age story that follows a pop star as she skyrockets to fame during the Y2K era, for fans of Emma Cline’s The Girls and Taylor Jenkins Reid.

Check out our interview with author Isabel Banta and have a listen to the specially curated playlist, which you can read-a-long or sing-a-long to or both!
Learn more
Honey is a sexy swagger of a debut. The ambition and grit of its heroine are matched by the dextrous smarts of its writer, and it is deeply satisfying to see the mistreated pop princess of the millennium get the respect that they–as complicated humans–deserved all along.
Emma Straub, New York Times Bestselling Author
A delicious, enthralling debut, one that treats its complex subject matter with the humanity such stars are only occasionally offered in reality.
ELLE
This delightfully nostalgic debut full of millennial-bait Easter eggs charts early aughts teen pop-princess Amber's rise to stardom. Pressured by the demands of music producers, the media, and fans, she shakes off the need to please and finds her truest self. Honey is delicious.
PEOPLE
Honey is the debut novel every millennial needs in their beach bag . . . For fans of Daisy Jones & the Six and A Visit from the Goon Squad, Honey is an exciting read about the dark side of fame, early aughts pop culture and the transition from girlhood to womanhood.
PureWow

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

‘Like Daisy Jones soaked in Britney Spears’ Curious’ HOLLY BOURNE

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.

Authors

Isabel Banta

Isabel Banta is a writer, book publicist, and indie bookseller based in Brooklyn. She graduated from the University of Virginia. Honey is her debut novel.