Magpie
'Completely, terrifyingly BRILLIANT’
Marian Keyes, author of Grown Ups
‘I didn’t want it to end’
Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women and Animal
‘Magnificent: I read it in one sitting’
Kate Mosse, author of
The City of Tears
When Marisa meets Jake, everything falls into place. But then their new lodger Kate arrives.
Something isn’t right about her. It’s the way she looks at Jake, keeps her toothbrush right next to theirs and constantly asks questions about the baby they are trying for. Or maybe it’s all in Marisa’s head. That’s what Jake thinks. And she trusts him, doesn’t she?
But Marisa knows something is wrong, and she is determined to find out why, even if it costs her everything.
'A very elegant, tense, literary thriller'
Sarah Vaughan, author of Anatomy of a Scandal
‘Utterly engrossing, a thick sense of dread unfurling from every page’
Refinery29
‘I literally couldn’t put this down’
Sara Collins, author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton
‘A compelling, twisting read’
Matt Haig, author of The Midnight Library
‘Sharp, twisty … Impossible to put down’
Daily Mail
‘A pulse-quickening tale’
Stylist
‘Sharp and sinister’
Mail on Sunday
‘A pacy, stylish thriller’
Observer
‘Scintillating’
The Sunday Times, Thriller of the Month
‘A compassionately crafted psychological drama’
Harper’s Bazaar
‘I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough’
Prima Magazine
‘Be prepared for a sleight-of-hand-twist that will leave you gasping’
Red Magazine
Sunday Times bestseller 06/09/2021
Elizabeth Day is the author of five novels and Sunday Times bestselling memoir, How to Fail. Her acclaimed debut Scissors, Paper, Stone won a Betty Trask Award and Home Fires was an Observer book of the year. Her third, Paradise City, was named one of the best novels of 2015 in the Evening Standard, and The Party was an Amazon bestseller and a Richard & Judy bookclub pick. She is also an award-winning journalist and has written extensively for The Times, the Telegraph, the Guardian, the Observer, Harper’s Bazaar and Elle. She is currently a columnist for the Mail on Sunday's You magazine and host of the iTunes chart-topping podcast, How To Fail With Elizabeth Day.