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.
A few nights later, however, Wesley approaches Bianca at the club again after Bianca had a particularly bad day, and Bianca spontaneously kisses Wesley in order to distract herself from her problems.“What is she going to do?” wonders Marisa, the nervous, eager-to-conceive woman in “Magpie,” Elizabeth Day’s fourth novel. Disgusted, Bianca finds her friends and leaves. He explains that he wants people to see him talking with her, because she is the DUFF, the Designated Ugly Fat Friend, and a connection with her will bring other, more attractive women to him. One January night as Casey and Jessica are dancing, another student named Wesley Rush, who has a reputation as a womanizer, approaches Bianca. High school student Bianca Piper, along with her friends Casey Blithe and Jessica Gaither, frequent a teen lounge called the Nest. A companion novel, Lying Out Loud, was released on April 28, 2015, and is set in the same universe as The DUFF. A film based on the novel, also entitled The DUFF, was released on February 20, 2015.
Keplinger was 17 when she wrote the novel, which was released on September 7, 2010. The DUFF is a 2010 young adult novel by American author Kody Keplinger.
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