"Welcome to 'Single White Female' With a Maternal Twist... as much as countless book jackets in recent years have asserted otherwise, few have approached [Gillian Flynn's] virtuoso, go-big-or-go-home approach...the narrative matches how it feels to be suffering through pregnancy anxiety, fears of romantic betrayal, in-law strife, body horror ... [Magpie] mimics the many shocks of womanhood."--Megan Abbott, New York Times Book Review

"A taut domestic psychological thriller.... Magpie shocks and distresses in a way that only good psychological thrillers can, but it also provides a catharsis, depicting the frustrations of womanhood in all forms. It shows that, when faced with motherhood, a woman will do absolutely anything in her power to protect what she has... Magpie is sharp, beguiling and dramatic, with a twisting plot that will keep readers guessing until the end."--Newsweek

"[A] tense, ultimately cathartic psychological drama...Day's cleverness lies in fashioning from these ingredients a pacy, stylish thriller in which suspense is accompanied by fist-pumping feminism and, perhaps toughest of all, hope."--The Guardian

'A compassionately crafted psychological drama'--Harper's Bazaar UK

"Scintillating...a study of four ways of being a mother, and full of poignant evocations of related experiences, from pregnancy to the agony of infertility."--Sunday Times

"Utterly engrossing, a thick sense of dread unfurling from every page... a celebration of [mothers'] devotion and an examination of what happens when that devotion tips into obsession in the most fascinating way."--Refinery 29 UK

"This domestic thriller from Day serves up a dramatic plot twist that will leave readers questioning everything.... Highly readable, and fans of the genre will gobble it up."--Booklist

"Day successfully turns the narrative on its head in the second half... She also cannily subverts a few tired tropes to create a convincing final act, with a twist rooted in clues that were there all along. Readers will thoroughly enjoy this."--Publishers Weekly

"Magpie is a gorgeous thriller-cum-manifesto that I am going to recommend to every single person I know. 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 that makes all the sense in the world, yet will take you completely by surprise. There are so many books in the world, and we are better for most of them, but Magpie is a book that needed to exist in the world. It is the book that was missing." --LISA TADDEO, AUTHOR OF ANIMAL and THREE WOMEN

"Completely, terrifyingly BRILLIANT."--MARIAN KEYES, AUTHOR OF GROWN UPS

"Magpie is a clever, suspenseful read with a brilliant central pivot and a keen eye for relationships, including the toxic ones. A compelling, twisting read. Elizabeth Day is a wonderful writer and this Magpie has strong wings."--MATT HAIG, AUTHOR OF THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY

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

"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

"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

"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

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