The dazzling, evocative, and tender-hearted story of two women struggling to reconcile the friendship they remember with the reality of their current lives, for fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid, Layne Fargo, and Allison Larkin.

Los Angeles, 1987: Dulcie arrives on the Sunset Strip chasing a feeling and is quickly swept up in the raucous scene. She finds a chosen family in the neon-bright clubs, falling for the allure of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, and cementing the kind of friendship she’s always been desperate for with Tamsen, an aspiring filmmaker documenting their chaotic corner of the Strip. Dulcie and Tamsen have both always felt like too much, but for a moment, together on the edge of adulthood, on the edge of everything, they finally belong.

Years later, Tamsen is eager to make her mark with a bold, explosive film about the glam rock scene and its groupies—her chance to step into a world she’s always felt closed off from. But when the film reshapes their shared history into a public spectacle, both women are forced to confront the gaps between their memories, who they see on the screen, and who they want to be.

Unfolding across three decades, Girls on the Edge immerses readers in the sparkling world of ambition and excess, examining the complexities of friendship, womanhood, and the struggle to live with—or outrun—our past selves.