Honeyeater

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

“Eerie, mythic, and gorgeous, Jennings’ writing evokes the natural and the fantastical so deftly that it is hard to find where one ends and the other begins.” — Holly Black

“Lush and atmospheric, this is an elegant cocktail of flood water and gum trees and secrets that refuse to stay safely drowned. Gorgeously written.” — T. Kingfisher

“Honeyed, sense-filling prose. … an enchanting novel of time and land.” — Paul Cornell