Bitter Honey

From the multi award-winning author of Drift, winner of the Welsh Book of the Year 'Extraordinary...this book will absolutely tug at your soul. One to re-read and treasure....glorious, heart-breaking, yet ultimately full of hope.' Liz Hyder, author of The Twelve 'A gentle and tender novel about the power of forgiveness and how humans might thrive when given the space to grow. Richly rewarding fiction.' Kirsty Capes, author of Careless and Girls ____ FROM THE WINNER OF THE WELSH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD... Hannah has lived at Berllan-Deg all her life, the rhythms of her day governed by the natural world. Her husband came to live at the orchard when they got married. Tonight, she must prepare for his funeral. He was a writer and a beekeeper who came to understand the world through the language of bees. He has left Hannah eleven letters; the exact same number as there are frames in a beehive. But on the morning of the funeral, Hannah's estranged sister arrives and soon they are joined by a stranger with secrets of her own. As the letters unfold, the world around Hannah begins to shift... 'An assured, sensitively told tale' Marie Claire 'A tender, lyrical story of love, loss and renewal' Woman's Own 'Exquisite . . . This is one of those novels that you can devour in a day but lingers long in the memory' Buzz Magazine

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.