Honeyeater

A richly imagined dark fantasy that pulses with the beautiful destruction of a town reclaimed by the natural world.

'An elegant cocktail of floodwater and gum trees and secrets that refuse to stay safely drowned.' - T. Kingfisher, author of Swordheart

Subtropical Bellworth is founded on floodplains and root-bound secrets. And Charlie, remarkable only for vanished friends and a successful sister, plans to leave for good, just as soon as he deals with his dead aunt's house. Then Grace arrives, desperate, with roses pressing up through her skin, and drags Charlie into the ghost-choked mysteries of Bellworth, uncovering the impossible consequences of loss and desire - and a choice Charlie made when he was a boy.

But peeling back the rumours and lies that cocoon the suburb disturbs more than complacent neighbours and lost souls. And Charlie and Grace are forced to a decision that threatens not only their lives, but all they believed those lives could be.

SHORTLISTED FOR 2025 AUREALIS AWARDS

Praise for Honeyeater:

'Gorgeously written. I was so busy admiring the writing that I didn't notice how deep the water had gotten or what was growing underneath.' - T. Kingfisher, author of Swordheart

'Eerie and mesmeric, silted with a deep sense of foreboding, Honeyeater reads like a memory-old myth, like something dangerous and true.' - Cassandra Khaw, author of The Salt Grows Heavy

'Honeyed, sense-filling prose . . . an enchanting novel of time and land.' - Paul Cornell, author of Witches of Lychford

'A drowning dizziness of the senses.' - C. S. E. Cooney, author or World Fantasy Award-winning Saint Death's Daughter