Meternity. Meghann Foye

      

      Not quite knocked up...

      Like everyone in New York media, editor Liz Buckley runs on cupcakes, caffeine and cocktails. But at thirty-one, she’s plateaued at Paddy Cakes, a glossy baby magazine that flogs thousand-dollar strollers to entitled, hypercompetitive spawn-havers.

      Liz has spent years working a gazillion hours a week picking up the slack for coworkers with kids, and she‘s tired of it. So one day when her stress-related nausea is mistaken for morning sickness by her bosses—boom! Liz is promoted to the mommy track. She decides to run with it and plans to use her paid time off to figure out her life: work, love and otherwise. It’ll be her “meternity” leave.

      By day, Liz rocks a foam-rubber belly under fab maternity outfits. By night, she dumps the bump for karaoke nights and boozy dinners out. But how long can she keep up her charade...and hide it from the guy who might just be The One?

      As her “due date” approaches, Liz is exhausted—and exhilarated—by the ruse, the guilt and the feelings brought on by a totally fictional belly-tenant...about happiness, success, family and the nature of love.

       PRAISE FOR MEGHANN FOYE’S METERNITY!

      “A fresh, contemporary take on love and work, marriage and motherhood, Meternity is guaranteed to surprise and delight!”

      —Emily Giffin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Something Borrowed and First Comes Love

      “Funny, real and painfully true at times, Meternity tackles the bumpy road from singledom to modern motherhood with clever crafting and plenty of heart.”

      —Jane Green, New York Times bestselling author of Summer Secrets and The Beach House

      “A character so lovable, a predicament so fantastic, I could not wait to find out what happens next!”

      —Nicola Kraus, #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of The Nanny Diaries

      “A witty and wonderful look at the challenges of being a woman today. Foye’s mixture of humor mixed with honesty and satire will have you laughing out loud one minute and seriously pondering the state of the modern world the next.”

      —Lucy Sykes and Jo Piazza, authors of The Knockoff

      “If Bridget Jones had a modern-day BFF who worked at a New York magazine, was faking a pregnancy, and was struggling with post-30 singledom, this laugh-out-loud debut would be her book!”

      —Kristin Harmel, international bestselling author of The Life Intended and The Sweetness of Forgetting

      Meternity

      Meghann Foye

       www.mirabooks.co.uk

      To my mother

      Contents

       Cover

       Back Cover Text

Praise

       Title Page

       Dedication

Conception

May

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

Six

       Seven

       Eight

       Nine

       Ten

       Eleven

       June

       Twelve

       Thirteen

       Fourteen

       Fifteen

       Sixteen

       July

       Seventeen

       Eighteen

       Nineteen

       Twenty

       August

       Twenty-One

       Twenty-Two

       Twenty-Three

       Twenty-Four

       Twenty-Five

       September

       Twenty-Six

       Twenty-Seven