Magpie: The most gripping psychological thriller of the year from Sunday Times bestselling author Elizabeth Day by Day, Elizabeth | Paperback | Modern And Contemporary Fiction: General And Literary

She has almost everything. The rest shell take.

For fans of Gone Girl and The Perfect Nanny, a taut, psychological suspense novel about a perfect couple and their seemingly perfect roommatethat is until she threatens to destroy everything theyve worked so hard to create.

Marisa and Jake are a perfect couple. And Kate, their new lodger, is the perfect roommateand not just because her rent payments will give them the income they need to start trying for the baby of their dreams.

Exceptno one is truly perfect. Sure, Kate doesnt seem to care much about personal boundaries and can occasionally seem overly-familiar with Jake. But Marisa doesnt let it concern her, knowing that soon Kate will be gone, and it will just be her, Jake, and their future baby.

Conceiving a baby is easier said than done, though, and Jake and Marisas perfect relationship is put to the test through months of fertility treatments and false starts. To make matters worse, Kates boundary-pushing turns into an all-out obsessionwith Jake, with Marisa, and with their future child. Who is this woman? Why does she seem to know everything about Marisa and Jake?

In her quest to find out who Kate really is, Marisa might destroy everything shes worked so hard to createher perfect romance, her perfect family, and her perfect self.

Jake doesnt know the half of what Marisa has createdand what she stands to lose.

For fans of Gone Girl and The Perfect Nanny, Magpie is a tense and twisting novel about mothers and children, envy and possession, and the dangers of getting everything youve ever dreamed of.