Plainly Her Books

What we are writing

Some of what belongs on this site works better as something you can hold, annotate and take to an appointment. These are the titles in progress.

Nothing here is published yet. Every title below is a working title. There is no pre-order button, no invented cover, no price and no listing, because none of those things exist. When a title publishes, this page becomes a shop and not before.

Working title, not yet published

The Plainly Her Guide to Perimenopause

What is happening, what helps, and what to ask for

The flagship title. Everything on the perimenopause hub, restructured for someone who wants to read it end to end rather than search it, with the appointment preparation material as an appendix.

Planned formats: kindle, paperback

Nothing to buy yet, and we are not going to put a pre-order button on a book that has not been written.

The perimenopause hub · Take the 4-minute check

Working title, not yet published

Strength After 40

A first programme for women who have never lifted

Twelve weeks, three sessions a week, home or gym, written for someone starting from nothing. The evidence for why load matters more than cardio in this decade, then the actual programme.

Planned formats: kindle, paperback, digital

Nothing to buy yet, and we are not going to put a pre-order button on a book that has not been written.

Strength training after 40

Working title, not yet published

Eating for Muscle and Bone

A Caribbean and American kitchen cookbook

Protein targets built out of food people actually cook, including a Caribbean chapter that does not treat callaloo, saltfish, peas and ground provisions as an exception to a diet.

Planned formats: kindle, paperback

Nothing to buy yet, and we are not going to put a pre-order button on a book that has not been written.

Food and fitness

Working title, not yet published

Sleep During Perimenopause

Why 3am, and what actually helps

The short one. What is happening physiologically, what else it could be, what has evidence, what is comfort, and how to raise it at an appointment so it is taken seriously.

Planned formats: kindle, digital

Nothing to buy yet, and we are not going to put a pre-order button on a book that has not been written.

Waking at 3am

Working title, not yet published

The Appointment Journal

Track it, then be believed

A twelve-week symptom and cycle tracker built backwards from what a clinician needs to see in order to take a pattern seriously in a ten-minute consultation.

Planned formats: paperback

Nothing to buy yet, and we are not going to put a pre-order button on a book that has not been written.

The doctor conversation guide

Know when the first one lands

We will tell you once, when the first title is actually available. Not a countdown, not a launch sequence.

One email to deliver it, then a weekly note you can leave whenever you like. We never sell your address, and we never attach it to anything you type into the check or the assistant.