Deliver Me (novel)

Deliver Me is a 2023 novel by British-American author Elle Nash. It discusses motherhood under capitalism, how society treats pregnancy, reduction of women to reproductive functions, and mental illness. Nash states the novel took two weeks to plan and eleven weeks to write the first draft.

Nash says her time living in the American south, specifically northern Arkansas, helped inspire the book. The specific inspiration Nash cites was Dynel Lane's 2015 crime that occurred while she was living in Colorado. Dynel Lane attacked a 7-month-pregnant Michelle Wilkins and removed her fetus, then pretended to be pregnant for nine months. Nash additionally cites the story of Lisa Montgomery, who murdered and cut out the fetus of 8-month-pregnant Bobbie Stinnett, and the experience of working while she was pregnant herself.

The novel is structured in three parts, labeled from the first to the third trimester, accompanying an image of a fetus that grows smaller. Nash created a music playlist of 35 songs accompanying the novel after writing the first few drafts.