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I didn't like to perform. I liked to be loved.
'Like Daisy Jones soaked in Britney Spears' Curious' HOLLY BOURNE
'It's a delightfully bubblegum novel of hot summer nostalgia' LITHUB
'A sexy swagger of a debut' EMMA STRAUB
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 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 whe