Honey

‘The best kind of campus novel, satirical and razor-sharp, crossed with a crime story: Thompson is an exciting new voice’ Guardian
‘With her dark, adrenaline-soaked debut, Imani Thompson arrives as Britain’s brightest young novelist … the blistering thriller taking the literary world by storm’ Vogue
‘Dark, thrilling and undeniably hot, this novel will leave you gasping for air’ Glamour
‘Honey might be the most-anticipated debut novel of the year’ Esquire
‘Imani is a writer to watch and Honey is the entertaining (and quietly damning) read you’ll need to kick off spring’ Elle
‘A serial-killer thriller with a side of feminist theory, Thompson’s alchemical fusion of racial politics and “weird girl” fiction feels genuinely fresh’ Guardian
‘The hotly-anticipated debut from British author Imani Thompson, Honey is a dark tale which throws light on the intersections between politics, race, sex, violence and love through the eyes of a female serial killer’ Marie Claire
‘Clever and brilliantly gripping … As I shut it for good, I found myself buzzing with adrenaline’ The Standard
‘A worryingly relatable, deliciously dark debut – Yrsa serves up the unhinged hot girl homicide I didn’t know I needed’ Sophie Duker
‘A wonderfully sticky debut, impossible to predict or to forget’ Erin Kelly
‘Phenomenal. The voice is utterly singular, the writing is stunning … It reminded me of Promising Young Woman (except it didn’t pull any punches) with a touch of Such a Fun Age’ Louise O’Neill
‘Wow, basically. It’s a cracking read, crackling with energy and wit … A one-sit read’ Harriet Tyce
‘A marvel of a novel, a story that breathes beyond its pages’ Ore Agbaje-Williams, author of The Three of Us
‘This is a beautiful, relentless novel, twisting away from easy answers, arcs, or redemption’ Abigail Dean, author of The Death of Us
‘A twisted comeuppance story, a campus-life spoof, and a look at the dating-app generation of women … Wow. Think Fleabag channeled by Valerie Solanas’ Kirkus

Imani Thompson was born in 1998 and is a British writer of Scottish, Irish and Jamaican heritage. After studying Sociology at Cambridge University, she wrote Honey while working as a bookseller at Daunt Books. She lives in London.

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