Honey // A Novel

A wickedly funny, adrenaline-rush of a novel about a graduate student who murders bad men and justifies it in the name of feminism, by a bold new voice in fiction

Yrsa is in a funk. Shes bored of her PhD program, bored of her research on Afropessimism, bored of the entitled undergrads she has to cater to. But most of all, shes bored of the men in her lifeespecially the bad ones.

When her best friend, Nina, confesses to having an affair with her professor, and that hes stolen her research, Yrsa is mad. On the quad, Yrsa bumps into the professor and witnesses his death: an unfortunate incident involving his San Pelligrino and a bee allergy. What she sees that afternoon awakens something in her: a taste for murder.

Emboldened, Yrsa decides to chase that high, and soon, no sexist, misbehaving man within commuting distance is safe.

With each murder, Yrsa feels a greater sense of meaning and purposefinally, her doctoral research feels useful. But how long can killing in the name of feminist and racial solidarity justify her actions? Will her rampage ever assuage her feelings of rage and revenge? And how long until her actionsand buried family secretscome back to haunt her?

Imani Thompsonis an English writer of Scottish, Irish and Jamaican heritage. After studying Sociology at Cambridge University, she worked asa bookseller at Daunt Books.Honeyis her first novel. She lives in London.

• Publisher: Random House
• Publish Date: May 5, 2026
• Pages: 384
• Language: English
• Type: Hardback
• EAN/UPC: 9780593979761
• Dimensions: 8.3 X 5.5 X 0.0 inches | 1.0 pounds
• BISAC Categories: Literary Fiction, Humor & Entertainment