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Explore membershipsHoneysuckle
A Novel
Length
11 hours 27 minutes
Language
English
Narrators
Catrin Walker-Booth & Geraint Rhys
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“A gorgeous modern fable of friendship, first love, agency, and artistry. Read this between the seasons and let it take over you. ”
— Rachel • Tombolo Books
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“A stunning, bone-chilling fantasy novel holding a mirror to the patriarchal society women are forced to navigate with a beautiful homage to Welsh folklore. ”
— Aricka • Lark & Owl
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“Bar Fridman-Tell has crafted a dark and haunting coming-of-age story in a unique blend of folklore and flowers. Steeped in nature and following the rhythm of the seasons themselves, Honeysuckle nevertheless radiates a dark, atmospheric tension. A must read for any who enjoy folklore, nature, and the deceptive hearts of people who wear love as a mask.”
— Rebecca • Fireside Books
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“Honeysuckle is a timeless fable of autonomy, obsession, and the power of choice, woven throughout with the all-too-real horror of being in a profoundly complicated relationship with a manipulator to whom you are inexorably linked. Fridman-Tell's prose is as addictive as the drifting scent of lilacs on a warm spring day, as unsettling as the rot those same blossoms emit after a week in a vase.”
— Jessie • Copper Dog Books
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“From the first chapters filled with delightful childhood innocence and friendship, Fridman-Tell then deftly leads us into shudderingly disturbing chapters of ever-increasing manipulation, deceit, and control before finally bringing hope and promise, mixed with heartache. This is a wonderfully imaginative and viscerally troubling look at power imbalance and control in relationships. After this powerful debut, I look forward to more from Fridman-Tell! ”
— Nancy • Raven Book Store
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“This takes a lot from Frankenstein - blind ambition, ethics of creation, trauma of societal rejection - then adds elements of male privilege and teenage hyper-sexuality. Pretty good!”
— Kristine • Buttonwood Books and Toys
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“It was so sweet and became so disturbing. I really enjoyed the story. It gave me Frankenstein vibes.”
— Becky • Books Etcetera
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“A debut novel loosely based on the Welsh myth of Blodoewedd, Honeysuckle is a lush, gorgeously written fairytale of body horror - if your body is a bouquet of flowers. This complicated tale delves into themes of agency, the ethics of creation, and the line between devotion and control. Dark, lovely, and unsettling.”
— Rowan • The Novel Neighbor
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“Honeysuckle by Bar Fridman-Tell is just the right amount of creepy for this scaredy-cat reader. It deals with themes of consent and power dynamics. It starts out as such a sweet story of friendship and then goes very dark. The part that hit me the most is the dual POV, so you get to see the justification through the lens of the one with all the power. It's for fans of The Handmaid's Tale and The Power, for sure. ”
— Anna • Katy Budget Books
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“A powerful mix of darkness and light, of love and control, of joy and sorrow, of captivity and the path to freedom. A unique coming of age story that will resonate long after the story ends.”
— Jess • Book Moon
The Bear and the Nightingale meets Weyward in this enchanting, deeply compelling debut about love and power, autonomy and consent.Once upon a time, on the edge between meadow and forest, there was a lonely child with only his older sister for company. In exchange for being left in peace, his sister made him a playmate—Daye, a girl woven from flowers and words. And for the first time, this boy, Rory, had a friend.Rory couldn’t be happier, until he learns that Daye is a short-lived creature. At the end of each season, she must be woven back together or fall gruesomely apart. And every time Daye falls apart might be her last.As Rory and Daye grow older and the line between friendship and romance begins to blur, Rory becomes desperate to break this cycle of bloom and decay. But the farther Rory pushes his research and experiments to lengthen Daye’s existence, the more Daye begins to wonder just how much control she really has over her own life.As a loose reimagining of the story of Blodeuwedd from Welsh mythology, Honeysuckle is an entrancing, inventive, and unsettling debut.
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 a master's in library and information sciences at the University of Toronto, 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.
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Audiobook details
Author:
Bar Fridman-Tell
Narrators:
Catrin Walker-Booth & Geraint Rhys
ISBN:
9781639736751
Length:
11 hours 27 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:
March 24, 2026
Edition:
Unabridged
Libro.fm rank:
#12,622 Overall
Genre rank:
#1,533 in Fiction - Literary
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