Honeysuckle

'A hauntingly lyrical, fairytale-like horror'
- Kalynn Bayron, New York Times bestselling author

Once upon a time, on the edge of a forest, there was a lonely child with only his older sister for company. So his sister made him a playmate - Daye, a girl woven from carefully selected flowers and words.

Rory is gloriously happy, until he learns that Daye is a seasonal creature. At the end of each season, she must be woven back together or fall gruesomely apart. And when, one autumn, his sister fails to return home from university in time, Rory has no choice but to watch his best friend slowly crumble.

Realizing he can no longer rely on his sister to keep Daye alive, Rory determines he must leave home to learn how to do it himself. Rory sinks deeper into research and experiments to end the cycle of bloom and decay. But as Rory grows older his thoughts turn darker too . . .

An entrancing, inventive and unsettling reimagining of the story of Blodeuwedd from Welsh mythology, Honeysuckle by Bar Fridman-Tell is a feminist Frankenstein with flowers; a deliciously dark, twisted, horror-tinged fairytale with rot at its heart . . .

About the author

Bar Fridman-Tell has a BA in art history and an MA in English literature. (She gleefully wrote her thesis about Victorian vampires.) She has worked as a bartender, a bookseller, a translator and a library assistant. She is currently studying for an MA in Library and Information Sciences, hoping to stay in a library for good. She lives in Toronto with her professor husband and two very fluffy cats. Honeysuckle is her debut novel.

Product details

• Authors: Bar Fridman-Tell
• Publisher: Pan macmillan Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 19.03.2026
• EAN: 9781037400650
• ISBN: 978-1-0374-0065-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Romance, Dark Romance, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION / Fantasy / Dark Fantasy, natural history, Horror & ghost stories, Myth & legend told as fiction, Horror and supernatural fiction, Nature and the natural world: general interest, FICTION / Nature & the Environment, Fairy and Folk tales / Fairy tale retellings, FICTION / Horror / General