Read March 2019.
This is a fictional biography about the rise to stardom of a band called Daisy Jones and the Six, in the 1970s - the heyday of drugs and rock and roll.
It is unusal in that the story is told in the form of interviews with the band members and those close to them, and I was impressed by how well this worked. This could have come across as cold and factual, but instead it serves to really convey the self-destructive relationships and emotions between the characters very effectively. I really liked the way the different viewpoints of the characters added layers to the story, and it is a very convincing portayal of the bands of the era.
The story does inevitably get a bit bogged down in the middle, when the band is creating their albums, because there is so much about writing the fictional songs - it is very difficult to relate to the back stories of lyrics for songs you do not know. I liked that the lyrics were added at the end of the book, though.
Reece Witherspoon is working with Amazon on a tv series based on this book, and I can see this working really well, because adding the music will bring the story alive.
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