ISBN: 9780008374952 SKU: 1447773 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book. This 2021 Harper Collins Paperback is in near mint condition. Jake doesn’t know the half of what Marisa has created-and what she stands to lose. 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 she’s worked so hard to create-her perfect romance, her perfect family, and her perfect self. To make matters worse, Kate’s boundary-pushing turns into an all-out obsession-with Jake, with Marisa, and with their future child. Conceiving 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. But Marisa doesn’t let it concern her, knowing that soon Kate will be gone, and it will just be her, Jake, and their future baby.

Sure, Kate doesn’t seem to care much about personal boundaries and can occasionally seem overly-familiar with Jake. 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 the baby of their dreams. “Great, plain and simple” (Stanley Tucci). Parrish comes a twisty psychological suspense about motherhood, obsession, and just how far some will go for the perfect family. When I read Gone Girl, I felt that it was more accessible than. But we can’t forget what’s come before and Day lets it hang over the novel’s final moments like a creeping shadow.For fans of The Last Mrs. Magpie was a quick, straightforward page-turner, and I found it less frightening than Gone Girl. At first, it feels like a deflation: a grand opera culminating in a needle scratch. Loose ends are tied and problematic characters exiled. Day opts for a third act that is more grounded, even conciliatory. The dilemma with such novels, however, is that once you’ve raised the pitch that high, once all bets are off and narrators have shown their inevitable unreliability, how do you bring it home in a satisfying way?. And the spiraling energy at the center of the novel captures the way fertility struggles can serve as a tripwire, upturning everything else in one’s life. The near-constant fever pitch of the narrative matches how it feels to be suffering through pregnancy anxiety, fears of romantic betrayal, in-law strife, body horror. It’s not about how things are but how they feel - and the deeper truths that can be mined within that feeling. We watch Marisa, Jake and Kate make choices that strain credibility or at least consistency of character. And it’s the kind of twist that makes you re-evaluate everything you’ve read before. Early in Magpie, a twist comes that made me gasp out loud.

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