Here is a collection of fifteen remarkable short stories in which humour and melancholy combine to produce poignant tales of hope and despair. Deceptively simple the stories are immediately engaging, with characters who live on long after the reader has turned the page.
In 'Manfall', the transition from youth to middle age is sensitively considered as a frustrated husband remembers a lover who once wanted to bungee jump naked. In 'Not Known At This Address', a quirky tale of postal obsessions, a jilted middle-aged woman fixes her attentions on her apartment's former occupant. The title story, 'The Honey Suckers', explores the sensual delights of childhood and their reawakening as sexuality in adulthood.
Drawing from New Zealand lives of all ages and backgrounds, this book explore the universal themes of love, aging and alienation . . . and appetite.
