BOOK OF THE WEEK: Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan

The Literary Salon

We have not one but two bestselling authors joining us this week on the podcast, with readings from their new book Mad Honey. Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan have teamed up in a beautiful collaboration to produce a gripping novel that is at once a murder mystery and a court room drama, exploring questions around identity and gender. Some readers are calling it the book of the year and we’re here for it!

Olivia fled her abusive marriage to return to her hometown and take over the family beekeeping business when her son was six. Now Asher is over 6 feet tall and in his last year of high school, a kind, good-looking, popular ice hockey star with a tiny sprite of a new girlfriend who Olivia loves. Then Lily is found with a catastrophic head injury at the bottom of the stairs - and Asher is arrested on a charge of murder... what was the truth of their relationship?

Mad Honey is published by Hodder and Stoughton and available now. We recommend buying a copy from your local indie bookshop or you can visit our shop on Bookshop.org. And if you’d like to see Jodi and Jenny in person, check out their tour schedule here.

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