Books in the Brewery - Maylands - Jan: Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings

Books in the Brewery is a free casual book club. In January we discuss Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings.

Book of the Month: Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings

Books in the Brewery is a free casual event combining great beer with good chat and an Aussie novel. Readers and drinkers are invited to take part in a guided conversation with our resident host.

Maylands meetings will be held at 6pm on the second Monday of the month.

Adult readers of all experience are invited to think and talk about books in a safe and encouraging space. Expect to be discussing books from both award-winning Australian authors and new voices from around the country.

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This event is sponsored by the City of Bayswater.

About the book: A richly imagined dark fantasy that pulses with the beautiful destruction of a town reclaimed by the natural world.

Subtropical 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.

But peeling back the rumours and lies that cocoon the suburb disturbs more than complacent neighbours and lost souls. And Charlie and Grace are forced to a decision that threatens not only their lives, but all they believed those lives could be.

'Gorgeously written. I was so busy admiring the writing that I didn't notice how deep the water had gotten or what was growing underneath.' - T. Kingfisher, author of Swordheart

'Eerie and mesmeric, silted with a deep sense of foreboding, Honeyeater reads like a memory-old myth, like something dangerous and true.' - Cassandra Khaw, author of The Salt Grows Heavy

'Honeyed, sense-filling prose . . . an enchanting novel of time and land.' - Paul Cornell, author of Witches of Lychford

'A drowning dizziness of the senses.' - C. S. E. Cooney, author or World Fantasy Award-winning Saint Death's Daughter