Laura McPhee-Browne

We arrived on a Tuesday, I can remember that. I can remember Hetty’s hand in mine as we moved slowly down the steps of the escalator, as if standing completely still would have been harder than moving. Hetty and Ness, best friends since childhood, have left suburban Melbourne for the first time to live abroad. Hetty is charming and captivating,...

Beautifully capturing the emotional complexity of impending motherhood, Little Plum is a rich and vital story from a rising star in Australian fiction. On the cusp of thirty, Coral learns that a thing is growing inside her body. It is not necessarily a complete disaster, she tells herself. I'm okay, she tells herself. Soon the thing inside her is the...

From the author of the acclaimed Cherry Beach comes a thrilling exploration of love and desire—obsessive, all-consuming, and impossible to look away from. On an ordinary day, two women meet on a train. Heloise—the older woman—lives with her boyfriend in Melbourne. Lacey—the other woman—is from Aotearoa and studies the clouds. What follows is anything but ordinary, a passionate affair that...