Bright Raven Press | Books from Harmony Healing
An imprint of Harmony Healing Services
Fiction rooted in the experiences of women, families, young people and the systems that surround them.
Why Fiction?
Reading is one of the most powerful ways we find ourselves in other peoples’ stories. As a coach and therapist, I have spent years sitting with families navigating neurodivergence, eating disorders, loss, and systems that don't quite fit them. I’ve also lived this system myself as a neurodivergent, hyper mobile, migraine POTSy.
Bright Raven Press exists to bring those stories to life — fictionalised, but true in the ways that matter.
What We Publish
Stories that sit with difficult things in liminal space
The Liminal Series is a collection of literary novellas from Claire Buttrum, published under her own imprint, Bright Raven Press.
Liminal: of or relating to a threshold. The space between worlds. The moment before transformation. The place where one thing ends and another - not yet named - begins.
Each book in the series inhabits exactly that space. A teenage girl caught between who the medical system says she is and who she knows herself to be. A woman suspended between life and death, navigating the forest of her own mind. A grieving father standing at the threshold of acceptance, unable yet to cross. A young woman trapped between the body the world expects and the one she actually lives in.
These are quiet books. Atmospheric, precise, and deeply felt. They do not rush. They do not shout. They sit with their characters in the difficult, in-between places and refuse to leave until something shifts.
Every book published under the Bright Raven Press imprint grows from real therapeutic experience. The conversations, the silences, the moments of recognition that happen when someone finally feels heard.
These are not self-help books. They are stories. But they are written by someone who knows what it is to witness a family in crisis, to see a young person misunderstood by the systems meant to care for them, and to believe that story, the right story, can be its own kind of medicine.
These books are for the invisible. The unheard. The ones the system missed. And for everyone who has ever stood at a threshold wondering if it was safe to cross.
Bright Raven Press is small, intentional, and rooted in place. Our books are set in Cambridgeshire and the East of England, written for readers who want fiction that asks real questions.
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Every story emerges from real therapeutic work — not invented, but transformed. The characters are fictional. The themes behind them is not.
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Set in the East of England. Published in Cambridgeshire. And will be distributed to local bookshops so we can support them.
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Each book carries its own playlist — a musical thread woven through the chapters that deepens the reading experience. And offers a nod to the importance of music and movement to ND people.
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For the invisible siblings, the misunderstood young people, the exhausted parents. For anyone who has felt unseen by a system that was meant to help.
The List
Our Books
book one | 2026
Little Bird
Told through the eyes of twelve-year-old Jake - the invisible sibling - as his sister Olivia spirals into crisis and a medical system that can’t quite hear her.
Print and ebook out now.
book two | release date January 2027
Under the Willows
n a hushed fenland house, a woodworker and his autistic son move around a grief they can't speak. They eat in silence beneath the weight of all that isn’t said.
Under the Willow is a tender, deeply sensory portrait of a father and son navigating the aftermath of loss. It is a story about the unspoken languages we build to survive, the comfort of routine, and the small, unexpected moments in which something long frozen begins, quietly, to move.
Print and e-book release TBC
“Some people collapse under the belief 'I'm never good enough' ... They have to find a different way of living in the body.”
Pat Ogden, founder of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Meet Your Author
Claire Buttrum
Author, Coach, and Therapist
For much of my life, I’ve existed in fragments. As a neurodivergent, hypermobile woman, my journey has been peppered with the specific, heavy shame that comes when your way of being doesn't align with the world's expectations.
I’ve been a dancer, yoga teacher, holistic therapist, project manager and coach. I’m now a therapist, mother, and creative, yet these facets felt disjointed until I found the courage to let myself be truly me.
Today, I write from a place of integrated wholeness. My work is rooted in the secret, divergent experiences of women and their families; the noise, fear, and trauma often held silently in the body. I believe creativity is the ultimate release for these unspoken truths. Through my stories and therapeutic practice, I aim to help other women and their families give themselves permission to occupy their bodies and minds without apology.
My approach is unapologetically bottom-up. I take my work directly to the people with whom it resonates, bypassing the diagnoses and pathology of the medical model. These stories are for the forgotten, the lost, and the resilient. By sharing the raw reality of ND life, I hope to turn the noise of our struggles into a chorus of recognition and peace.