Publication Date: June 9, 2026
In the vein of Pineapple Street and Such a Fun Age, a smart, heartfelt debut novel about two expecting mothers navigating motherhood, family life, and female friendship, whose bond is threatened by a shocking revelation.
Victoria and Liz barely breathe the same air, but they collide headfirst when they meet in a group for expectant mothers and find common ground against all odds.
Victoria, forty-three, is confident, poised, and powerful, on the fast track to major career success in finance. Having kids is not in the plan. She had avoided love for decades—and hadn’t been too keen on female friendship either—when she fell for Ace, a dashing man twenty years her senior.
Liz, thirty-two, lives a fairly unstable life, trying to make her situationship work and navigate a job on a vile reality dating show. She’s desperately wanted to experience motherhood for her entire life, but anxiety and insecurity have landed her with a laundry list of failed romances. It’s an accident—ish—when she gets pregnant with her emotionally elusive boyfriend Preston’s baby just shy of a year into dating.
When Liz and Victoria meet in a parenting class, they both feel out of place amongst these pregnant women who seem to have it all figured out. They roll their eyes at the classic sign-off peppering the new mommy group chat: TIA (thanks in advance!). Alienated from these other women and due within a week of each other, Victoria and Liz’s bond becomes a lifeline as they navigate their pregnancies and relationships. They grapple with impending motherhood together and lean on each other to navigate important decisions about family, career, and love. It’s the first successful female friendship in Victoria’s life and the first time Liz has felt so connected to an older, wiser confidante. Maybe, just maybe, it will all be okay.
But as they grow more secure in their futures with each other’s support, the friends confront a shocking turn of events that will change the course of both their lives. Victoria and Liz then must reckon with their relationships, their impending journeys of motherhood, and the strength of their own bond in this unforgettable work of women’s fiction.
Two expectant mothers from different backgrounds find common ground through their shared experiences until a shocking revelation threatens to tear their bond apart.
Author Laura Lekkos delivers a solid story full of ups and downs in All the Little Ways. While Victoria relishes her corporate life and is one step away from a big promotion, Liz yearns for stability.
Pregnancy news affects each woman differently, leading to some intense moments. Since neither Victoria nor Liz was properly mothered themselves, they find solace in their friendship.
It’s in the relaxed, unscripted conversations that the two women push back against expectations of perfection in motherhood. Their strong support for each other at such a vulnerable time is evident.
A plot twist leads to frayed relationships and threatens to isolate both women as they give birth. The author delivers emotional intensity along with a satisfying conclusion.
All the Little Ways pays homage to the challenges of impending motherhood coupled with unrealistic expectations.
Laura Lekkos is a screenwriter and author. Her credits include Amazon MGM’s Relationship Goals and she is the adapting writer of Rebecca Serle’s Expiration Dates starring Emma Roberts for Amazon MGM, Jennifer Probst’s The Marriage Bargain for 20th Century Studios and Maurene Goo’s Somewhere Only We Know for Netflix. She is especially passionate about writing female-focused stories and has worked with various studios including Amazon, Netflix, Sony, Universal, and Lionsgate.
Laura’s debut novel, All the Little Ways, will hit shelves in June 2026.
She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and is repped by Gersh and Felker Toczek Suddleson McGinnis Ryan LLP.
She lives in Los Angeles with her family.
