WORK IN PROGRESS
Almost six months pregnant, due to emergency medical complications, I released my first pregnancy. It was a choice that came from the greatest love I have ever experienced.
Scared of being misunderstood and raised to never make others uncomfortable though, I kept silent about the truth behind my baby’s stillbirth for years.
GOOD GIRLS KEEP SECRETS is a 76,000-word literary memoir less about abortion and more about what happens after – surviving loss, developing your own spiritual compass, and what it takes to step fully into your truth. Own your story.
Written with heart, humor, and deep reflection - think what if a character from a Sophie Kinsella novel and Ruth Bader Ginsberg found themselves on a yoga retreat together - this completed manuscript takes the reader on a mystical, healing love story, giving the complex topic of late-term abortion a new voice.
EARLY READER PRAISE:
“Laurel has both poetry in her writing and gives the sense that she is just a friend, telling you her story. She brings deep insights to the experiences of her life — most of which I found incredibly relatable and helpful to understanding myself more. She also is a master of her own nervous system and shares her spontaneous techniques as memoir. I found myself joining her as she inhaled and exhaled on this journey to becoming a fuller version of herself.”
“Laurel’s writing captures the raw, honest emotion from life’s unimaginable events. The reader can feel the depth and many dimensions of grief, yet simultaneously the sense of hope and peace that comes with acceptance and healing.”