Jake represents stability and solidity and she likes that. Marisa was abandoned by her mother when she was 7 years old and her father pretty much switched off after that. They haven’t known each other long but have moved in together and are trying for a baby. And, it’s a hard one to review without giving spoilers but I’ll do my best.
Um… I’m in the minority here but I wasn’t really sure what the point of the book was. Magpie is a tense and twisting novel about mothers and children, envy and possession, and the dangers of getting everything you’ve ever dreamed of. Jake doesn’t know the half of what Marisa has created and what she stands to lose. In her quest to find out who Kate really is, Marisa might destroy everything she’s worked so hard to create: her perfect romance, her perfect family, and her perfect self. Who is this woman? Why does she seem to know everything about Marisa and Jake?
To make matters worse, Kate’s boundary-pushing turns into an all-out obsession-with Jake, with Marisa, and with their future child. Kate will soon be gone, and it will just be her, Jake, and their future baby.Ĭonceiving a baby is easier said than done, though, and Jake and Marisa’s perfect relationship is put to the test through months of fertility treatments and false starts. Sure, Kate doesn’t seem to care much about personal boundaries and can occasionally seem overly familiar with Jake, but Marisa doesn’t let it concern her. ‘A pacy, stylish thriller in which suspense is accompanied by fist-pumping feminism and, perhaps toughest of all, hope.Marisa and Jake are a perfect couple, and Kate, their new lodger, is the perfect roommate-and not just because her rent payments will give them the income they need to start trying for a baby. How far will she go to find the answer - and how much is she willing to lose? That the woman sleeping in their house will stop at nothing to get what she wants. And she trusts him - doesn’t she?īut 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?Īfter all, that’s what her Jake keeps telling her.
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 makes herself at home without any self-consciousness. Sometimes Marisa gets the fanciful notion that Kate has visited the house before. ‘Magnificent: I read it one sitting’ KATE MOSSE, AUTHOR OF THE CITY OF TEARS It is the book that was missing’ LISA TADDEO, AUTHOR OF THREE WOMEN AND ANIMAL ‘A book that needed to exist in the world. ‘Terrifyingly BRILLIANT’ MARIAN KEYES, AUTHOR OF GROWN UPS
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