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australian author
australian fiction
Australian romance
Author_Laura McPhee-Browne
award-winning author
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contemporary australian novel
desire and obsession
emotional storytelling
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fans of literary romance
forthcoming
lgbtq literature
love and betrayal
lyrical prose
modern love story
passion and memory
psychological fiction
queer love story
women's fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9781917189422
- Dimensions: 135 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 16 Jul 2026
- Publisher: Scribe Publications
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 will consume them both in mismatched and maddening ways.
Propulsive and lyrical, Worry Doll examines desire, memory, and the delusion of love.
Laura McPhee-Browne is a writer, social worker, and counsellor living in Melbourne on Wurundjeri land. Her short stories have been published widely in Australia. Her first two novels, Cherry Beach (2020) and Little Plum (2023), were published with Text Publishing to critical acclaim.
