A Taste of Honey

Abstract

A Taste of Honey, occurs in Salford, then in Lancashire, and tells the story of Jo, a seventeen-year-old working class girl whose mother, Helen, is a crude, sexually indiscriminate 'slapper'. Jo?s mother abandons her after finding Peter, a rich and much younger lover. At the same time, Jo begins a romantic relationship with Jimmy, a black sailor she meets in school. Their budding love becomes a marriage proposal, which Helen strongly denounces, by ridiculing the idea of Jo marrying. Jimmy goes to sea, leaving Jo alone to find lodging with Geoffrey, her gay acquaintance. Geoffrey assumes the ...