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Magpie / Elizabeth Day.
In Jake, Marisa has found everything she's ever wanted. Then their new lodger Kate arrives. Something about Kate isn't right. 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. And she trusts him - doesn't she? But Marisa knows something is wrong. That the woman sleeping in their house will stop at nothing to get what she wants. Marisa just doesn't know why. How far will she go to find the answer - and how much is she willing to lose?
Record details
- ISBN: 9781982187606 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 322 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published in trade paperback: London : 4th Estate, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021. |
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| Subject: | Fertilization in vitro > Fiction. Infertility > Fiction. Landlord and tenant > Fiction. Married people > Fiction. Roommates > Fiction. Secrecy > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Thrillers (Fiction) Psychological fiction. Novels. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | FIC Day | 31681010275857 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
When their new lodger, Kate, becomes obsessed with her, her husband and the baby they are desperately trying to conceive, Marisa must find out who Kate really is before she loses everything sheâs worked so hard to createâher perfect romance, her perfect family and her perfect self. - Baker & Taylor
When their new lodger, Kate, becomes obsessed with her, her husband, and the baby they are desperately trying to conceive, Marisa must find out who Kate really is before she loses everything she's worked so hard to create--her perfect romance, her perfect family, and her perfect self. - Simon and Schuster
For fans of The Last Mrs. Parrish comes a twisty psychological suspense about motherhood, obsession, and just how far some will go for the perfect family. âGreat, plain and simpleâ (Stanley Tucci).
Marisa and Jake are a perfect couple. And Kate, their new lodger, is the perfect roommateâand not just because her rent payments will give them the income they need to start trying for the baby of their dreams.
Exceptâno one is truly perfect. Sure, Kate doesnât seem to care much about personal boundaries and can occasionally seem overly-familiar with Jake. But Marisa doesnât 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 Marisaâs perfect relationship is put to the test through months of fertility treatments and false starts. To make matters worse, Kateâs boundary-pushing turns into an all-out obsessionâwith 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 sheâs worked so hard to createâher perfect romance, her perfect family, and her perfect self.
Jake doesnât know the half of what Marisa has createdâand 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 youâve ever dreamed of.
