"Manchmal braucht man Lügen, um zu überleben
Sieben Monate nach dem Tod ihrer Schwester Dandelion ist Poppys Welt noch immer aus dem Gleichgewicht geraten. Da stößt sie auf dem Smartphone ihrer Schwester auf die Nachricht eines Mannes namens Jake, gibt sich kurz entschlossen als ihre wilde große Schwester aus und verabredet sich mit ihm. Nur ein Mal will sie so mutig sein wie Dandelion - und ihr dadurch nah sein. Für Poppy und Jake ist es Liebe auf den ersten Blick. Jeder Moment mit Jake fühlt sich echt, schön und richtig an - obwohl alles auf einer Lüge basiert. Als die Grenzen zwischen Trauer und Liebe verschwimmen, steht Poppy vor einer schweren Entscheidung: Soll sie die Erinnerung an Dandelion durch Lügen aufrechterhalten oder alles für ihr eigenes Glück riskieren?"
"Jake has fallen head over heels for Dandelion. The only problem? Dandelion is dead.
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Poppy’s sister has been dead seven months when she decides to tell the lie.
It’s not supposed to hurt anyone. She just wants to do something Dandelion would have found funny, and feel a little more alive herself.
But lies spiral, lust blooms and grief keeps crashing the party.
When Poppy meets Jake, can one act of deceit spark something unexpectedly real?
'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
'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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