THE FUSE

The first batch of October’s paperbacks begins with the latest reissue from Daunt’s publishing arm, first published in 1968. In Elizabeth Jenkins’s Honey, Roland meets the titular thirty-year-old at a film premiere and is captivated, marrying her in 1962. All goes well until Roland’s sixteen-year-old son arrives. Already bored with married life, Honey sets about seducing him, but Brian seems surprisingly resistant to her charms. ‘Honey is a deliciously scandalous novel of seduction laced with irony, wit and decadence, as Jenkins explores lust, love and the pitfalls that come with clinging to the last dregs of youth’ says the blurb promisingly.