How far will she go to find the answer - and how much is she willing to lose? 'A pacy, stylish thriller in which suspense is accompanied by fist-pumping feminism and, perhaps toughest of all, hope. Each character is strong with survival instincts, however these traits are expressed differently throughout Day’s novel. This consists of Marisa, Kate and Jake’s mother, Annabelle. That the woman sleeping in their house will stop at nothing to get what she wants. Elizabeth Day appears to have strong female leads within Magpie. And she trusts him - doesn't she? But Marisa knows something is wrong. Is it the way she looks at Marisa's boyfriend? Sits too close on the sofa? Constantly asks about the baby they are trying for? Or is it all just in Marisa's head? After all, that's what her Jake keeps telling her.

I also think her writing is a bit mannered. I actually think I went from really liking the book to actively hating it and all the characters in it It was making me very cross. In Jake, Marisa has found everything she's ever wanted. I can’t work out what Elizabeth Day wants us to think re surrogacy with this book. She puts her toothbrush right there in the master bathroom, on the shelf next to theirs. She makes herself at home without any self-consciousness. Infertility, surrogacy, sexual assault, mental illness and a lot of desirable housing stock might seem too much for one book, but with her new novel, Magpie, Elizabeth Day pulls off a polished and creepy thriller which probes at the heart of what it means to be able to conceive a child or not. It is the book that was missing' LISA TADDEO, AUTHOR OF THREE WOMEN AND ANIMAL 'Magnificent: I read it one sitting' KATE MOSSE, AUTHOR OF THE CITY OF TEARS Sometimes Marisa gets the fanciful notion that Kate has visited the house before. 'Terrifyingly BRILLIANT' MARIAN KEYES, AUTHOR OF GROWN UPS 'A book that needed to exist in the world.

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