Honey

What is more addictive than sex or chocolate? Murder, of course. A bored Cambridge PhD student goes on a feminist killing spree in this sensual, whipsmart literary thriller backdropped by academic debate and campus politics. Acquired in a 10-way UK auction and 9-way US auction, this gripping debut has sold in 10 further territories – and counting. Thompson is a British writer with Jamaican heritage, who won the Vogue Talent Contest for new writers while studying at Cambridge. She wrote Honey while working as a bookseller at Daunt Books. Borough Press is cooking up a “massive, top-level” marketing campaign.