REVIEWS FOR YOU BELONG HERE
This is the place for reviews, features and thoughts relating to my debut novel, You Belong Here.
Be warned, dear reader, you will need a box of tissues at your side as you read You Belong Here.
Emily Paull
You Belong Here tenderly gives literary shape to normal lives: the small-scale tragedies, long-running family feuds, the fleeting moments of joy, and the boredom and confusion.
Nathan Hobby
Steed has compressed an incredible story between these two covers.
Sam Van Zweden
It seems safe to assume that we’ll be hearing Steed’s name plenty more in the future.
The AU Review
Without doubt, Steed is a talent to watch.
Joanne Shiells
A little gem.
Herald Sun
It’s both fascinating and admirable the way that Steed moves seamlessly...from eldest to youngest, parent to child, focusing on the lives of each individual while still maintaining that essence of a family nucleus.
Westerly
A book that at its beginning I thought of as just another novel about a dysfunctional family surprised me with its insights, warmth, relevance to us all, and above all, its writing pizzazz. Well worth reading.
Whispering Gums
Interwoven short story collections are often at their best when they offer multiple perspectives on the same event. Laurie Steed does this well in his début novel You Belong Here, as he captures the life of a single family through the multiplicity of its members.
Australian Book Review (paywall)
Shortlisted for the 2018 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards.
You Belong Here is a novel about trust and connection. About what keeps us going, in spite of ourselves.
About a place where we belong.
‘A little gem.’
The Herald Sun