Honeybee

TW

Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail and looks down at the road far below.

At the other side of the same bridge, an old man, Vic, smokes his last cigarette.

The two see each other across the void. A faithful connection is made, and unlikely friendship blooms. Slowly we learn what led Sam and Vic to the bridge that night. Bonded by their suffering, each privately commits to the impossible task of saving each other.

Honeybee is a heartbreaking life affirming novel that throws us headlong into a world of petty thefts, extortion plots, botched bank robberies, daring dog rescues and one spectacular drag show.

At the heart of honeybee is Sam: A solitary resilient young person battling to navigate the world as their true self and snared by loyalty to a troubled mother scarred by the volatility of a domineering stepfather, and confounded by the kindness of new alliances.

Honeybee is a tender profoundly moving novel brimming with vivid characters and luminous words it's about two lives forever changed by chance encounter one offering hope the other redemption it's about to preserve and went to be merciful as Sam learns went to let go and went to hold on.