A Pregnant Pause

Suffocated by her soul-crushing job and excruciating commute, Kat Wright hatches a brilliant plan: fake a pregnancy to score a year of paid maternity leave.

But Kat’s world quickly spirals into a chaotic web of lies involving suspicious colleagues, a rekindled toxic romance, and a borrowed baby.

As her meticulously crafted world implodes, Kat must navigate the increasingly disastrous fall-out of her scheme, leading to consequences she never could have imagined.

Meet the flawed (okay, unhinged!) anti-heroine you’ll root for, even when you know you shouldn’t.

Available now in eBook format; paperback coming
12th February 2026
Other outlets coming soon

Quotes from A Pregnant Pause:

‘I hate it. I hate this commute. I hate this weather. And I hate my stupid fucking job.’

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‘I, too, will go on maternity leave! I’m going to fake a pregnancy.’

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‘The thing is, having a baby doesn’t automatically make you a mother… In the same way that owning oil paints doesn’t make you Van Gogh.’

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‘What are you, the pregnancy police?’

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‘It’s like a Lowry painting up there… In that head of yours… So damned bleak.’

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Rekindling

A couple’s trip to a remote Scottish cabin, intended as a digital detox to rekindle their failing marriage, quickly descends into a nightmare.

Isolated and stripped of modern distractions, Monica and Paul’s deep-seated resentments boil over.
The arrival of a mysterious stranger unearths a devastating secret that leads to a shocking breaking point, proving that some flames are better
left extinguished.

Soon to be published