Winner of the Wales Book of the Year

Drift

**WINNER OF THE WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023** 
**WATERSTONES WELSH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022** 
 
 
'Truly beautiful and haunting, and an incredible feat of storytelling' DONAL RYAN 
 
'A tender, unusual and gorgeously wrought love story' RACHEL JOYCE 
 
'In times of war, Lewis finds resilience, redemption and hope...DRIFT feels perfectly judged' OBSERVER 
 
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEBUT FROM THREE-TIME WINNER OF WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR CARYL LEWIS: A STORY OF LOVE, MAGIC AND THE IRRESISTIBLE LURE OF THE SEA. 
 
Nefyn has always been an enigma, even to her brother Joseph with whom she lives in a small cottage above a blustery cove. 
 
Hamza is a Syrian mapmaker, incarcerated in a military base a few miles up the coast. 
 
A violent storm will bring these two lost souls together - but other forces will soon try to tear them apart... 
 
Moving between the wild Welsh coast and war-torn Syria, Drift is a love story with a difference, a hypnotic tale of lost identity, the quest for home and the wondrous resilience of the human spirit. 
 
'A truly magical and transformative novel. I loved it.' KIRSTY CAPES, author of CARELESS

A truly beautiful and haunting novel, and an incredible feat of storytelling

A tender, unusual and gorgeously wrought love story that weaves the magic of folk lore, the wonder of the sea, and the depths of human cruelty. It moves between the worlds it inhabits like the finest piece of driftwood.

In times of war, Lewis finds resilience, redemption and hope...DRIFT feels perfectly judged

A truly magical and transformative novel. I loved it.

Original and timely... [shows] the resilience of the human spirit, the tenacity and love that helps us survive.

A heart-wrenching, all at sea read -- you are going to want this on your radar.

Caryl Lewis

A gentle and tender novel about the power of forgiveness and how humans might thrive when given the space to grow. Richly rewarding fiction.

Kirsty Capes, author of Careless and Girls

From three times winner of Wales Book of the Year 
 
'A gentle and tender novel about the power of forgiveness and how humans might thrive when given the space to grow. Richly rewarding fiction.' Kirsty Capes, author of Careless and Girls 
 
‘A seed in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible’ Old Welsh Proverb 
 
Hannah has lived at Berllan Deg all her life, her husband came to live at the orchard when they got married. Tonight, she prepares for his funeral as he lies in the parlour. Over fifty years of marriage, a lifetime of memories dissipating in the impossibility of his stillness. He was a writer and a beekeeper who came to understand the world through the language of bees. He has left her eleven letters; the exact same number as there are frames in a bee’s nest. Each letter is an examination of an aspect of their marriage. The morning of the funeral, Sadie, Hannah’s estranged little sister comes back home for the service. As the letters unfold, they reveal a devastating secret that will make Hannah have to re-evaluate her whole life. 
 
Bitter Honey is a novel which brings three very different women together into a broken Eden and examines how they rebuild it on their own terms.

Caryl Lewis

Praise for Bitter Honey

A gentle and tender novel about the power of forgiveness and how humans might thrive when given the space to grow. Richly rewarding fiction.

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