EC Darcy writes books for anyone who’s ever been underestimated.

Her stories blend family secrets, domestic intrigue, humour, and the complicated reality of being a woman who is somehow expected to hold everything together while also remembering PE kits, birthdays, passwords, and where everyone left their charger.

She’s fascinated by the versions of women people think they know — the “good mum,” the “helpful wife,” the “quiet one,” the “difficult one” — and what happens when those women stop playing along.

When she’s not writing, she can usually be found near the Kent coast, buying another notebook she doesn’t need, reorganising a bullet journal instead of cleaning the kitchen, or pretending a trip to the garden centre was purely practical.

Just Popped Out is the first novel in The Just Fine Series.