Little Plum

“Coral hopes that she is not deliberately enigmatic, but rather that she takes time to show herself.”

An intricate and intimate portrait of unexpected motherhood, we follow Coral as she grapples with OCD and detachment throughout her pregnancy, and then with postpartum psychosis following the birth. Given the themes, there is an expected darkness to the novel, but we also find it enmeshed with a lightness and hope, all held together beautifully by McPhee-Browne's elegant, ethereal prose.