![]() ![]() ![]() And it’s the kind of twist that makes you re-evaluate everything you’ve read before. ![]() And, in fact, things go awry with remarkable velocity.Įarly in “Magpie,” a twist comes that made me gasp out loud. ![]() “But nothing stayed perfect forever, did it?” Marisa thinks to herself. As the novel begins, she’s just moved in with Jake, a handsome consultant, after a whirlwind romance and the only possible obstacle appears to be the sudden intrusion of Kate, a lodger who moves in to help the couple economize as they plan for the future - foremost, having a child. What fun would that be?įrom the very beginning, we worry for Marisa, the kind of doomed heroine who doth-insist-too-much that she’s found the perfect man and the perfect house to begin what she believes will be the perfect life. “In a cheap film - the kind that she watches on cable channels in the afternoons lying on the sofa when she should be working - the wronged woman would pack her bags and leave the house in a fit of righteous indignation.”īut, of course, Marisa does no such thing. “What is she going to do?” wonders Marisa, the nervous, eager-to-conceive woman in “Magpie,” Elizabeth Day’s fourth novel. ![]()
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