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Daisy Jones & The Six

Pages
368
Published
2019
Language
English

Synopsis

In the 1970s, Daisy Jones & The Six were one of the biggest rock bands in the world — and then, at the height of their fame, they walked off stage in Chicago and never played together again. Decades later, the people who were there finally agree to explain what really happened.

Told entirely as an oral history, the novel pieces together the band's rise from the Sunset Strip clubs to sold-out stadiums through the conflicting memories of its members. At the center are Billy Dunne, the band's driven frontman fighting to hold his family and his sobriety together, and Daisy Jones, a magnetic, self-destructive singer whose talent and chemistry with Billy push the band to greatness — and to the brink.

Taylor Jenkins Reid captures the sound and excess of an era through the imperfect, competing recollections of everyone involved, building a portrait of ambition, addiction, and the fine line between creative passion and personal ruin.

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About the author

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Taylor Jenkins Reid

Taylor Jenkins Reid is an American novelist. She was born in Maryland in 1983, grew up in Acton, Massachusetts, and studied media studies at Emerson College in Boston before moving to Los Angeles, where she worked in film casting. Her first novel, Forever, Interrupted, appeared in 2013. She is best known for The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (2017), Daisy Jones & The Six (2019), Malibu Rising (2021), Carrie Soto Is Back (2022) and Atmosphere (2025), novels that follow women in Hollywood, rock mu...

Characters

Daisy JonesProtagonist

A magnetic, self-destructive singer whose chemistry with Billy pushes the band to greatness and to the brink.

Billy DunneProtagonist

The band's driven frontman fighting to hold his family and sobriety together.

Camila DunneSupporting

Billy's steadfast wife and the band's quiet anchor.

Karen SirkoSupporting

The band's keyboardist.

Graham DunneSupporting

Billy's younger brother and the band's lead guitarist.

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