careless

Sometimes it's easy to fall between the cracks...

At 3.04pm on a hot, sticky day in June, Bess finds out she's pregnant.

She could tell her social worker Henry, but he's useless.

She should tell her foster mother, Lisa, but she won't understand.

She really ought to tell Boy, but she hasn't spoken to him in weeks.

Bess knows more than anyone that love doesn't come without conditions.

But this isn't a love story...

Kirsty Capes works in publishing and, as a care leaver, is an advocate for better representation for care-experienced people in the media. She completed her PhD, which investigates female-centric care narratives in contemporary fiction, in 2020. Careless is her first novel.