Plum

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Pub Date 29 Sep 2021 | Archive Date 06 Oct 2021

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Description

The wildly impressive, raucously funny and deeply moving second novel from award-winning writer, actor and director for television, theatre and film, Brendan Cowell, confirming the talent he showed in his bestselling debut novel from 2010, How It Feels.

Peter 'The Plum' Lum is a 48-year-old ex-star NRL player, living with his son and girlfriend in Cronulla. He's living a pretty cruisey life until one day he suffers an epileptic fit and discovers that he has a brain disorder as a result of the thousand-odd head knocks he took on the footy field in his twenty-year-career. According to his neurologist, Plum has to make some changes - right now - or it's dementia, or even death.

Reluctantly, Plum embarks on a journey of self-care and self-discovery, which is not so easy when all you've ever known is to go full tilt at everything. On top of this, he's being haunted by dead poets, and, unable to stop crying, discovers he has a special gift for the spoken word. With spectral visits from Bukowski and Plath, the friendship of local misfits, and the prospect of new love, Plum might just save his own life.

From award-winning writer, director and actor, Brendan Cowell, Plum is a powerfully moving, authentic, big-hearted, angry and joyous novel of men, their inarticulate pain and what it takes for them to save themselves - from themselves. It's got a roaring energy, a raucous humour, a heart of gold and a poetic soul.

The wildly impressive, raucously funny and deeply moving second novel from award-winning writer, actor and director for television, theatre and film, Brendan Cowell, confirming the talent he showed...


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ISBN 9781460760505
PRICE A$32.99 (AUD)

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Plum by Brendan Cowell is a very down to earth Aussie novel. The story of Peter (Plum) Lum, a retired NRL star player, who is suffering from the consequences of many concussions and faces challenges in changing life around or face the ultimate consequence. Told with all the full force of the Aussie language and expressions which is raucous, rude, funny and often crude, it also incorporates poetry that P Lum creates as he explores his path to self-recovery.
A very real feeling story that comes alive and while entertaining it is also full of sadness and heart ache.
Highly recommended read.

Thank you to Netgalley and HarperCollins Australia Publishers for a copy to read and review.

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