Meternity

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Pub Date 2 Jun 2016 | Archive Date 2 Jun 2016

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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 glossy baby magazine Paddy Cakes.

Liz has spent years working a gazillion hours a week picking up the slack for colleagues with children, 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 mummy 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 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.

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 glossy...


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After breaking up with her boyfriend of four years, Lizzie Buckley finds herself single and working as an editor for a glossy baby magazine in New York. Because she doesn’t have a family, she is the one who stays late at the office while the other editors run home to their families. So when her colleagues mistakenly think she is pregnant, she doesn’t correct them. She suddenly finds herself the centre of attention and while juggling fake bumps and doctor appointments, she also seems to find the right man. Although at the beginning of the book I didn’t like Lizzie (she seems selfish and self-centred) as I kept reading she started to grow on me and in the end I liked the person she becomes. A hilarious and enjoyable book that has drummed up plenty of controversy on talk shows, I couldn’t wait to find out how it would end.

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