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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. And finally, this boy, Rory, had a friend. 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, not knowing until the last second if she can still be pieced together again. 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. And the more he learns the more he starts to wonder: Why can't Daye survive more than one season? Can he do anything to break this cycle of bloom and decay? But as Rory grows older his thoughts turn darker too . . . While Rory sinks deeper into research and experiments, ensconced in libraries and hunched in university labs, Daye is left to wait for his return. Alone. Sometimes, the silence seems to seep all the way to her branch-bones. Sometimes, the company of birds is the only thing to remind her that she is still alive. And as Rory keeps pushing his experiments further and further, Daye starts to wonder - how far is too far? An entrancing, inventive and unsetlling reimagining of the story of Blodeuwedd from Welsh mythology, Honeysuckle is a feminist Frankenstein with flowers; a deliciously dark and twisted, horror-tinged fairytale with rot at its heart . . .

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A hauntingly lyrical, fairytale-like horror. I was absolutely enthralled with Fridman-Tell’s lush world building and devastatingly beautiful prose . . . A searing addition to the literary horror genre, Honeysuckle offers a tale in which beauty is inextricably intertwined with rot, and with the unrelenting passage of time love serves as both a shield and a dagger -- Kalynn Bayron, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Honeysuckle is equal parts fairytale and nightmare, beautiful and terrifying, innocent and disturbed. A novel for anyone who contemplates the rot beneath lovely things, and a deeply impressive debut -- Danielle Valentine, <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>The Dead Husband Cookbook</i>

Bar Fridman-Tell is a master of the botanical grotesque. This lyrical and captivating debut unsettles and shocks by turns, as a lush and dreamy childhood world gives way to a dark reality. -- Charlotte Cross, author of <i>The Brides</i> A hauntingly lyrical, fairytale-like horror. I was absolutely enthralled with Fridman-Tell’s lush world building and devastatingly beautiful prose . . . A searing addition to the literary horror genre, Honeysuckle offers a tale in which beauty is inextricably intertwined with rot, and with the unrelenting passage of time love serves as both a shield and a dagger -- Kalynn Bayron, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Honeysuckle is equal parts fairytale and nightmare, beautiful and terrifying, innocent and disturbed. A novel for anyone who contemplates the rot beneath lovely things, and a deeply impressive debut -- Danielle Valentine, <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>The Dead Husband Cookbook</i> Honeysuckle begins with a playful bargain but quickly descends into something darker, something that blurs the lines between love and ownership, desire and power, bond and bondage. This is magical realism at its absolute best – the fantastical is woven seamlessly into the sumptuous fabric of the world, while what is real is too monstrous and twisted to be anything other than achingly human. Escalating in dread from its first page to its breathless conclusion, this is a novel destined to become a modern gothic classic. A glorious, decadent debut! -- Anuja Varghese, author of <i>Chrysalis</i>

A hauntingly lyrical, fairytale-like horror. I was absolutely enthralled with Fridman-Tell’s lush world building and devastatingly beautiful prose . . . A searing addition to the literary horror genre, Honeysuckle offers a tale in which beauty is inextricably intertwined with rot, and with the unrelenting passage of time love serves as both a shield and a dagger -- Kalynn Bayron, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author

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Bar Fridman-Tell is a former bookseller and translator and a current student at the University of Toronto, studying for her Master's in Library and Information Science. She lives in Toronto with her professor husband and two very fluffy cats. Honeysuckle is her debut novel.

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