Honey

Honey has everything a woman could want: an adoring husband, great wealth, even greater beauty. She should be over the moon. But she isn't. She is bored.

Who can really blame her for eagerly awaiting the arrival of Brian, her sixteen-year-old stepson? Brian is a serious and shy young man, anxious to escape the claustrophobic clutches of his family, while Honey is determined to seduce him by any means necessary; she is used to men finding her irresistible. Brian, however, proves to be a different matter altogether.

Honey is a delightfully decadent novel about lust, love and clinging to the last of youth, told with sharp irony and salacious wit.

‘Wonderfully sinister, so enchantingly written and so sad. Everyone should read it.’ Jilly Cooper

‘A subtle and beautiful book . . . Very few authors combine her acute psychological insight with her grace and style.’ Hilary Mantel

‘The perfection of its tone and prose is matched by an anguished wit.’ Guardian