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Magpie

ID 410381
Slug magpie-day-elizabeth
Contributors
Author : Elizabeth Day
Annotation
Description The exhilarating new novel from the bestselling author of The Party and How to Fail: a thrilling, stylish and psychologically astute story of jealousy, motherhood and power. ‘A book that needed to exist in the world. It is the book that was missing’ Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women and Animal She has almost everything. The rest she’ll take. Marisa may have only known Jake a few months, but she has never felt this certain about anyone. When he asks her to move in with him and they start trying for a baby, she knows she has finally found the steadfast love and support she has been looking for all her life. But their relationship is tested when they take in a lodger, Kate, who has little regard for personal boundaries and seems to take an uncomfortable interest in Jake – as well as the baby they are hoping to have. Why is Kate so obsessed with the couple? And, more worryingly, why doesn’t Jake share Marisa's concern? In her determination to find the answers, Marisa risks losing everything she holds dear… Magpie is a tense, twisting, brilliantly written novel about mothers and children, envy and possession, and the dangers of getting everything you’ve ever dreamed of.
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Publisher Veltman Distributie Import Books
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Language eng
Page count 256
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Publication date first 2021-09-02
Publication date latest 2021-09-02
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  • ISBN: 9780008374952 (BC)

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