Rosie Storey – författare

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 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

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 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

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 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

Manchmal braucht man Lugen, um zu uberlebenSieben Monate nach dem Tod ihrer Schwester Dandelion ist Poppys Welt noch immer aus dem Gleichgewicht geraten. Da sto t sie auf dem Smartphone ihrer Schwester auf die Nachricht eines Mannes namens Jake, gibt sich kurz entschlossen als ihre wilde gro e Schwester aus und verabredet sich mit ihm. Ausgerechnet an Dandelion vierzigstem Geburtstag. Doch nur ein Mal will sie so mutig sein wie Dandelion und ihr dadurch nah sein. Es war ihr nicht wie ein Zufall vorgekommen, eher wie eine Intervention ihrer Schwester. Im Bad hatte Poppy mit ihrem Spiegelbild uber den ethischen Aspekt ihres Vorhabens debattiert und sich auf Folgendes geeinigt: Es war nur fur eine Nacht. Es war nur eine Eskapade anlasslich des Geburtstags ihrer Schwester. Nur fur eine Nacht wollte Poppy Dandelion sein. Eine Luge leben. Eine Luge lieben?Fur Poppy und Jake ist es Liebe auf den ersten Blick. Jeder Moment mit Jake fuhlt sich echt, schon und richtig an obwohl alles auf einer Luge basiert. Wenn Poppy die Geschichte von Anfang an erzahlen wurde dann wurde Jake vielleicht verstehen, dass nicht alle Lugen schrecklich sind. Dass sie manchmal ein Weg sind, um der Wahrheit naher zu kommen. Manchmal braucht man Lugen, um zu uberleben. Als die Grenzen zwischen Trauer und Liebe verschwimmen, steht Poppy vor einer schweren Entscheidung: Soll sie die Erinnerung an Dandelion durch Lugen aufrechterhalten oder alles fur ihr eigenes Gluck riskieren? Alle lieben Dandelion, aber sie ist tot ist ein einfuhlsamer und gleichzeitig humorvoller Debutroman uber zwei ungleiche Schwestern, Liebe, Trauer und den Mut, nach einem schlimmen Verlust wieder zu leben und Hoffnung zu finden. Dieser Roman lasst sich kaum aus der Hand legen Unbedingt lesen. Cosmopolitan