Little Plum

'I didn't so much read Little Plum as breathe it. Laura McPhee-Browne has an extraordinary ability to summon the ordinary and fill it with such significance and beauty that one has no choice but to inhabit her novels. At once exquisite and unsettling, dark and tender, Little Plum is a triumph.' - Hannah Kent

'Reading McPhee-Browne feels like listening to your own heartbeat.' - Amanda Lohrey

'Little Plum draws us so lightly into the depths that we don't know how far it's taken us until we can't go back. With dark insight and masterly grace, Laura McPhee-Browne reminds us that our bodies can know things we don't, that experience can save or afflict us, and that possession can invest us with beautiful and terrible things.' - Ronnie Scott

'An embodied and magical novel-so dark and earthy, colourful and frightening.' -Ellena Savage

'A poetic and razor-sharp portrait of motherhood.' - Harper's Bazaar

'[Laura McPhee-Browne] does especially well [in portraying] the coexistence of...parental love with an ongoing, often frightening battle with mental illness. It is depicted not as something to fix but something to understand and live with.' -Saturday Paper