Bitter Honey

While Bitter Honey is a story built on loss, identity is at its heart, alongside a simple reassurance that it is never too late to find yourself, and let others find you, too.>

About the author

Caryl Lewis is a multi-award-winning Welsh novelist, children's writer, playwright and screenwriter. Her breakthrough novel Martha, Jac a Sianco is widely regarded as a modern classic of Welsh literature, and sits on the Welsh curriculum. The film adaptation - with a screenplay by Caryl herself – won six Welsh BAFTAS. Her other screenwriting work includes BBC/S4C thrillers Hinterland and Hidden. In 2023, she won the Wales Book of the Year Award for the third time for her debut English novel Drift, making her the first writer ever to have won in both languages. She is a visiting lecturer in Creative Writing at Cardiff University, and lives with her family on a farm near Aberystwyth.

Product details

• Authors: Caryl Lewis, Lewis Caryl
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 09.07.2026
• EAN: 9781804992098
• ISBN: 978-1-80499-209-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Family life fiction / Stories about family, FICTION / Epistolary (Letters, Diaries, etc.), Narrative theme: love / relationships, Epistolary fiction / fictional diaries, Wales / Cymru