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Magpie by Elizabeth Day

Episode 2 - The Lodger

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

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Marisa has moved in with Jake and life is going well, but a new arrival unsettles her new found happiness. Pippa Nixon reads.

Magpie by Elizabeth Day is, an exhilarating psychological story about jealousy, motherhood and power. A happy couple are trying for a baby when a young woman enters their lives. It isn’t long before her presence upends everything and their lives implode.

Elizabeth Day is an award-winning novelist, journalist and podcaster. Her memoir How To Fail was a best-seller, and her podcast, How to Fail With Elizabeth Day is a chart-topping podcast.

Abridged by Rowan Routh
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