5/28/2023 0 Comments Lying out loud book![]() ![]() And the twist marks the novel - at least for its first two-thirds - as one of the Grand Guignol school of thrillers of which Gillian Flynn remains the current master and, as much as countless book jackets in recent years have asserted otherwise, few have approached her virtuoso, go-big-or-go-home approach. 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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