Book Spotlight: Meternity by Meghann Foye

Title:Meternity

Author:Meghann Foye

Published:April 2016, MIRA

Format:Paperback, 368 pages

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.

What readers are saying…

“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

“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 coauthor of The Nanny Diaries

“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 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  by Meghann Foye is one of  BookSparks “It’s Raining Books” reading selection picks. 

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