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. That the woman sleeping in their house will stop at nothing to get what she wants.

And she trusts him - doesn't she? But Marisa knows something is wrong. They’ve only known each other a few months before they’ve moved in together, and she. When Jake, a decade her senior, walks into her life, she feels that everything is falling into place as it should. 'Great, plain and simple' (Stanley Tucci). 28-year-old Marisa may not yet have reached thirty, but she’s keen to settle down and start a family. 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. Parrish comes a twisty psychological suspense novel about motherhood, obsession, and just how far some will go for the perfect family. Magpie by Elizabeth Day In Elizabeth Days psychological thriller, a happy couples lives are upended when a young woman comes into their orbit. In Jake, Marisa has found everything she's ever wanted. She puts her toothbrush right there in the master bathroom, on the shelf next to theirs. She was a feature writer for The Observer from 2007 to 2016 and has written four novels. Elizabeth Day is an English journalist, broadcaster and novelist. She makes herself at home without any self-consciousness. Read 2,983 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. 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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