‘A dark, sleek, ever-tightening spiral … Completely, terrifyingly BRILLIANT’ MARIAN KEYES, AUTHOR OF GROWN UPS

‘Elizabeth Day has written that rare book I always go hunting for, something that will keep me breathless with suspense but also buoyant with good energy. It is both sinister and comforting, outrageous but grounded, with a head-spinning plot twist… Magpie is a book that needed to exist in the world. It is the book that was missing’ LISA TADDEO, AUTHOR OF THREE WOMEN AND ANIMAL

‘Superbly taut and well-written, noirish with a big and beating heart’ JESSIE BURTON, AUTHOR OF THE MINIATURIST AND THE CONFESSION

‘Clever and suspenseful with a brilliant central pivot and a keen eye for relationships, including the toxic ones. A compelling, twisting read’ MATT HAIG, AUTHOR OF THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY

‘An absorbing exploration of infertility and mental illness combined with the pace and plot of a heart-racing thriller … I literally couldn’t put this down. Sublime’ SARA COLLINS, AUTHOR OF THE CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON

‘The most mind-blowing book of the year’ JOANNA CANNON, AUTHOR OF THE TROUBLE WITH GOATS AND SHEEP 

‘Magpie is tightly plotted, crackling with an uneasy tension, and has an ingenious twist you won’t see coming. Stylish, sinister, and clever, this is a sublime thriller’ LOUISE O’NEILL, AUTHOR OF AFTER THE SILENCE

‘Magnificent. Clever, beautifully-crafted, gripping, warm: I read it one sitting’ KATE MOSSE, AUTHOR OF THE CITY OF TEARS

‘Deft, thrilling, and merciless, Magpie is a book I raced through trying to guess the next twist and turn of the tightly woven plot Elizabeth has crafted. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough’ LAURA JANE WILLIAMS, AUTHOR OF THE LUCKY ESCAPE AND OUR STOP

'Clever and absorbing with cracking plot twists and lots of spot on social commentary, I could not stop until I had eaten it all’ CATHY RENTZENBRINK, AUTHOR OF A MANUAL FOR HEARTACHE AND EVERYONE IS STILL ALIVE

'I raced through Magpie. A very elegant, tense, literary thriller full of misdirection, unreliable witnesses, motherhood, madness, rage, and the most heart-breaking account of infertility I've read' SARAH VAUGHAN, AUTHOR OF ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL AND LITTLE DISASTERS