Malibu Rising: Life in a Californian paradise comes with a tinge of melancholia

Taylor Jenkins Reid’s eagerly awaited follow-up to her 2019 breakthrough Daisy Jones and the Six does not disappoint

Taylor Jenkins Reid plays around with narrative forms in Malibu Rising, as in her previous novels

FICTION

Malibu Rising

By Taylor Jenkins Reid

Hutchinson, €14.99

At a time when every week seems to bring another much-hyped debut novel, it’s good to know that some writers can still make major breakthroughs well into their careers. The American author Taylor Jenkins Reid had published five books before Daisy Jones and the Six, the oral history of a fictional 1970s rock band which became a massive hit in 2019. Two years later, expectations are ...