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Dandelion is Dead

By: Rosie Storey
Narrated by: Olivia Dowd, Laurence Dobiesz
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Jake has fallen head over heels for Dandelion. The only problem? Dandelion is dead. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– PICKED AS A BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2026 BY ELLE, VOGUE, COSMOPOLITAN, STYLIST, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, OPRAH DAILY AND WOMEN.COM

'Unputdownable' COSMOPOLITAN

'One to watch' ELLE

'Wildly fun' i PAPER

'A literary entrance worth noting' WOMEN.COM

'I tore through it; as hilarious as it is heartfelt' CLAIRE DAVERLEY

'Fans of Dolly Alderton and Nora Ephron will eat this up' LAURA HANKIN

'Breathtakingly original' CLARE LESLIE HALL

‘Dazzlingly funny and devastating and life-affirming’ ELLA BERMAN

'A funny book about grief, an honest book about lying' JENNY JACKSON

'A blazing firework of a novel' MORGAN DICK

'A book as compulsive as Dandelion Is Dead has no business being this psychologically astute, this emotionally complex, this genuinely hot … One of the fiction debuts of the year' EMMA FORREST

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Seven months after Dandelion’s death, Poppy resurrects her sister’s phone and finds a message from a man on a dating app. Jake.

Dandelion delighted in bad behaviour. She pushed Poppy to be daring. So, on what would have been her 40th birthday, Poppy decides to do something her sister would love, and – for one night only – she goes on a date as Dandelion.

Only when Poppy meets Jake, they have unexpected chemistry. Thrillingly hot, confusing chemistry. They become tangled in deceit while discovering something shockingly real. What happens when you fall in love with a lie?

As a precarious dare spirals somewhere altogether more unexpected, Dandelion is Dead becomes a love story, a ballad of sisterhood and an ode to bad behaviour.

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'Almost made me redownload Hinge for the plot' ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

‘What starts as a grief-fuelled moment of reckless curiosity turns into a wildly original rom-com … The masterful pacing and vividly realised characters make it hard to believe that this is Storey’s first book’ OPRAH DAILY

'This tale of both romantic and sisterly love seamlessly combines humor and heartbreak' PEOPLE

'If you’re a fan of messy, character-driven conflict in contemporary fiction, Dandelion Is Dead is for you … this book read like an indie movie: A little raw, a little quirky, with lots of heart' READER'S DIGEST

'The novel is as lively and vibrant as its titular character is dead' BOOK REPORTER

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Hypnotic and utterly addictive unravelling of love and loss. The characters are messy, raw, tender and at times enraging – alive with twisted humanity. With language that cuts, glimmers, and refuses to look away, Dandelion is Dead is a searing meditation on the human condition, a literary – and often cinematic – rollercoaster that is brutal, devastating, and gloriously riotous in its wit, heart and complexity. It carries the unmistakable energy of a writer discovering the full force of their voice, and the feeling that an extraordinary literary presence is emerging."

Wildly compelling epic tale

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