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A soul-stirring novel about what we choose to keep from our past, and what we choose to leave behind, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here and the bestselling author of She's Not There.

Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life—living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher—was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business.

Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she and her mom relocate to Adams, New Hampshire, for her final year of high school, they both hope it will be a fresh start.

And for just a short while, these new beginnings are exactly what Olivia and Lily need. Their paths cross when Asher falls for the new girl in school, and Lily can’t help but fall for him, too. With Ash, she feels happy for the first time. Yet at times, she wonders if she can she trust him completely . . .

Then one day, Olivia receives a phone call: Lily is dead, and Asher is being questioned by the police. Olivia is adamant that her son is innocent. But she would be lying if she didn’t acknowledge the flashes of his father’s temper in him, and as the case against him unfolds, she realizes he’s hidden more than he’s shared with her.

Mad Honey is a riveting novel of suspense, an unforgettable love story, and a moving and powerful exploration of the secrets we keep and the risks we take in order to become ourselves.

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Oct. 4 2022
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16.23 x 3.51 x 24.13 cm
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0735276935
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“Alternatingly heart-pounding and heartbreaking. . . . This collaboration between two best-selling authors seamlessly weaves together Olivia and Lily’s journeys, creating a provocative exploration of the strength that love and acceptance require.” —The Washington Post

“Gripping. . . . This timely and absorbing read will make readers glad these two powerful writers decided to collaborate.” —Booklist(starred review)

“Compelling. . . . A well-paced story that highlights several timely issues, with a stimulating courtroom trial that makes it worth reading.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Spellbinding. . . . A fruitful collaboration.” —Publishers Weekly

“I'm still thinking about [Mad Honey] long after the final page. Fabulous.” —Daily Mail

“A collaboration between two well-known writers, this is a seamless, beautifully written tale whose characters are the real stars.” —Business Post

“A dazzling story. . . . It’s a great read.” —Juju Chang, ABC News

About the Author

JODI PICOULT is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-eight novels, including Wish You Were Here,Small Great Things, Leaving Time, and My Sister's Keeper, and, with daughter Samantha van Leer, two young adult novels, Between the Lines and Off the Page. Picoult lives in New Hampshire.
JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN is the bestselling author of more than a dozen books. She is the inaugural Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence at Barnard College of Columbia University and a contributing Opinion writer for The New York Times. A nationally known advocate for human rights, she is a trustee of PEN America; for many years she was the national co-chair of GLAAD. She lives in New York City and Belgrade Lakes, Maine, with her wife, Deedie. They have a son, Sean, and a daughter, Zai.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House Canada (Oct. 4 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 464 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0735276935
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0735276932
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 720 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.23 x 3.51 x 24.13 cm

Best Sellers Rank: #426 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- #71 in Literary Fiction (Books)
- #116 in Women's Fiction (Books)

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Jodi Picoult
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Jodi Picoult is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-eight novels, including Wish You Were Here, The Book of Two Ways, A Spark of Light, Small Great Things, Leaving Time, and My Sister's Keeper, and, with daughter Samantha van Leer, two young adult novels, Between the Lines and Off the Page. Picoult lives in New Hampshire.
Her next novel, Mad Honey, co-written with Jennifer Finney Boylan, is available on October 11th.
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Jennifer Finney Boylan is the author of sixteen books, including GOOD BOY: My Life in Seven Dogs. Since 2008 she has been a contributing opinion writer for op/ed page of the New York Times; her column appears on alternate Wednesdays. A member of the board of trustees of PEN America, Jenny was also the chair of the board of GLAAD for many years. She is currently the Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence and Professor of English at Barnard College of Columbia University.
Jenny is a well known advocate for human rights. She has appeared five times on the Oprah Winfrey Show and has also been a guest or a commentator on Larry King Live, Good Morning America, and The Today Show. She is also a member of the faculty of the Breadloaf Writers' Conference of Middlebury College as well as Sirenland, in Positano, Italy.
She lives in Maine with her wife Deirdre. They have two children.
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Val rolls

I loved this book ❤️

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 18, 2023

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Jodie Picoult is always an amazing , insightful writer . She doesn’t shy away from the hard to think about or write about real world stuff and writing this with Jennifer Finney Boylan was seamless . I couldn’t tell which author was writing which segment at any time . This story was filled with so many heartbreaking moments for All Mom’s and it was told with skill and compassion .

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Carissa Chrest

Amazing book! The twist was so unexpected!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 27, 2023

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Went in not knowing much, read it for book club. It was so engaging and the twist was not predictable at all! Definitely an eye opening book.

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Brilliantly co-written…

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 9, 2023

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Educational, heartwarming, heartfelt…
I am a better person for having read this book.
Thank you both for writing this brilliant “novel”.
I feel like it is only a novel in that it is a work of fiction, however I’m sure the fiction is a combination of the truth of many different lives.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 27, 2023

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I have enjoyed all of Jodi’s books. This was as good as all the others.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 18, 2022

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A compelling mystery with an unexpected twist. I enjoyed the story and I learned a lot from reading it. Bravo!

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Tesa

Buy this book!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 9, 2023

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5 star book, amazing writing, plot and important topics for all to learn more about

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 2, 2023

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Another book of hers that kept me reading and still surprised me! Loved it.

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Informative and interesting

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 16, 2022

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I enjoyed this book very much. I felt like I learned a LOT and that the knowledge came wrapped up in an interesting plot line. I was most impressed that even though it was written by two people, it felt seamless in every way that it should. I found the characters to be well developed and for the most part, they were people I'd like to know.

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V. O'Regan

A powerful and moving novel

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 18, 2022

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“Most People in Adams, New Hampshire, know me by name, and those who don’t, know to steer clear of my home. It’s often that way for beekeepers…. Honeybees are far less vindictive than their yellow jacket cousins, but people can’t often tell the difference, so anything that stings and buzzes comes to be seen as a potential hazard.” - ‘Mad Honey’ by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan.

First off, this is a novel that I really would recommend be read ‘cold’. As I have a long history of reading Jodi Picoult’s novels, this was not difficult as I trust her storytelling skills and prefer surprises to spoilers. In ‘Mad Honey’ Picoult has collaborated with Jennifer Finney Boylan, an author who previously was unknown to me.

This is a return to the courtroom style dramas that were prominent in Picoult’s early novels and features her recurring character criminal defence
lawyer, Jordan McAfee.

Indeed, McAfee’s younger sister and nephew are leading characters in ‘Mad Honey’. So a few plot details for context: following her divorce Olivia McAfee returned to her childhood home in Adams, New Hampshire and taken up her family’s beekeeping business. Details about bees and beekeeping are scattered throughout the narrative.

Her son, Asher Fields, is a high school senior and member of their hockey team. The novel opens in December 2018. For the past few months Asher has been dating Lily, who had recently moved to town with her mother, who works for the Forest Service.

Olivia’s world is forever changed when Asher calls her from the police station and tearfully tells her that Lily is dead. Not long after Asher is arrested and charged with her murder. Olivia turns to her older brother, Jordan, for help. He comes out of retirement to defend his nephew.

The story is told by Olivia and Lily in alternating chapters. Obviously as Lily is no longer alive in the present, her chapters focus upon the events leading up to her death. Olivia’s chapters cover the days, weeks, and months following Lily’s death including the dramatic murder trial.

I found ‘Mad Honey’ a powerful story that unflinchingly addresses timely social issues, including troubling aspects of the USA legal system. It is also a moving love story, made all the more poignant for an awareness of its loss.

Following the main text there are a number of recipes featuring honey and both author’s contribute insightful Notes about how they came to collaborate on ‘Mad Honey’, background on their writing process, as well as on its key themes.

Jodi Picoult has long been known for tackling difficult ethical and/or moral themes in her writing. I certainly appreciate that this novel is bound to provoke controversy, though hopefully it will also serve to encourage discourse.

I do expect that this thought provoking, compassionate novel will not only prove popular with individual readers but with reading groups as it provides plenty of material for discussion along with a well written and engaging story.

On a side note the golden hued cover art was very striking and within the novel the occasional bee decorates the pages.

Highly recommended.

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J. A. Rice

Just brilliant 🐝 🍯

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 25, 2022

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This story is written from 2 perspectives, Olivia's and Lily's. And in 2 separate time lines. Olivia is Asher's Mum. Asher fails in love with Lily and one day he arrives at her home to find her at the bottom of the stairs dead. He becomes a suspect and is charged with her murder. The story is then split into the before ,told by Lily and the after told by Olivia.
I have read almost all of Jodi Picoult's novels and I felt this went back to her older style of writing, which I prefer. I'd never come across Jennifer Finney Boylan before but the way they wrote this together was amazing and I would definitely read more of her books.
I don't want to give anything away about the story, so I'll just say that half way through the book, something is revealed, something that I had opinions about, something I didn't understand fully and therefore needed educating about. This book changed my opinions and made me think about why I felt that way? Thank you Jodi and Jennifer for your beautiful story and making me a more tolerant kinder person.

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Jacqueline Bailey

Dissappointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 21, 2022

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I would never have bought this book if I knew that it was about transactivist ideology. Will be skipping all the bits written by "Jennifer".

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Stuart McKinlay

Too woke

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 16, 2022

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Giving this one to charity shop as I don’t like being preached to. I know the dark side of transgender ideology and this book romanticised teenage trans. Disappointed as I normally like Jodi Picoult books.

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thomas

If you are gender critical (as is your protected right to be), this is not the book for you.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 14, 2023

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I thought, a few chapters in, that this book was interesting and engaging. Beekeeping, male violence, teen angst, small town vibes.

Half way through the book, it comes to light that Lily is a 16/17 year old trans male, post surgery. Lily has hidden this from Asher, and the two have an intimate relationship. That any author would present a character who has undergone bodily mutilation during childhood as acceptable and normal and not cause for concern is incredibly troubling.

To then present an acceptable situation in which someone enters a sexual relationship with someone who is concealing important biological facts about themselves is truly horrific. Ethically, presenting as female yet not informing your sexual partner that you are actually male is deceit of the highest levels.

The latter part of the book then becomes a place for the co author to feed the dogma that humans (and in this case children) can actually change their biological sex.

It's a real shame as I'd have been more than happy to read fiction based on people's experiences of feeling like they don't quite fit into their own bodies / societies view of what they should be, but this book (1) doesn't give any indication that it is basically politocal propaganda and (2) presents a situation so far out of the normal that any curiosity I may have had for the lived experience of trans people is lost in the fact that JP has had her teen character go under mutliative surgery and conceal biological fact from the person she claims to love (3) fiction shouldn't lecture. It's for pleasure. Not preaching.

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