The New Girl, Harriet Walker
The New Girl, Harriet Walker
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The New Girl

Author: Harriet Walker

Narrator: Lucy Paterson, Olivia Darnley, Sarah Durham

Unabridged: 9 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/19/2020


Synopsis

“This debut thriller reads like The Devil Wears Prada meets Single White Female. I couldn’t put it down.”—Catherine Steadman, author of Something in the Water and Mr. Nobody

She’s borrowed your life. But what if she decides to keep it?

Glamorous Margot Jones is the fashion editor at glossy magazine Haute. Pregnant with her first child, Margot’s carefully curated life is the object of other women’s envy—who wouldn’t want her successful career, loving husband, beautiful house, and stylish wardrobe?

Maggie, a freelance journalist, certainly knows she doesn’t measure up. But when she gets the temp job covering Margot’s maternity leave, Maggie seizes the chance to live a flashier life—even if it’s only for a few months.

But the simultaneous arrival of Margot’s baby and a brutal end to her oldest friendship sends Margot into a spiral of insecurity and suspicion; normal preoccupations of new motherhood turn into dark and frightening paranoia. Who is the vicious online troll mocking Margot’s facade of perfection and threatening to expose a dark secret she’s spent years concealing? Are Maggie’s newfound ambitions and plucky enthusiasm as innocent as they seem? And what happens when Margot is ready to return to her old life—especially if Maggie doesn’t want to leave?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nilufer on May 21, 2020

And I can hear Switzerland’s national anthem, breathing in the mischievous and tempting chocolate smell and I can feel “let’s meet in the middle”, this is not my favorite novel but it’s also not bad book, I’m neutral kind of three stars are coming up! Don’t get me wrong! I love evil women’s business......more

Goodreads review by Irena BookDustMagic on March 16, 2021

Trigger warning: This book talks about child loss. It also has graphic scenes of sexual abuse. I feel like all the publicity surrounding this book didn't do it a favour. It was presented as new hot tense thriller when in reality we got mediocre women's fiction with few thriller/mystery elements. The st......more

Goodreads review by Ceecee on May 20, 2020

Margot Jones has a dream job as a writer for fashion magazine Haute. She’s expecting her first child as is her friend from school Winnie Clough though tragically her baby boy dies shortly after birth with terrible repercussions on their friendship. Maggie Beeches is Margot’s maternity cover and the......more

Goodreads review by emma on December 09, 2022

an intense debut novel that falls at its final hurdle. harriet walker's the new girl is told from the three perspectives of margot, fashion editor at haute magazine and new mother to lila, maggie, margot's maternity cover at haute, and winnie, the childhood best friend of margot understandably strug......more

Goodreads review by Darla on May 09, 2020

Can a woman really "have it all?" She has the dream job. The husband. A baby on the way. What will happen to the job during maternity leave? This thriller explores the themes of mother vs. career woman; single vs. being in a relationship; grieving vs. growing and more. . . For fashion editor Margo t......more


Quotes

“With elegant prose and complex, vivid characters, The New Girl is a delicious slow burn of a thriller. Harriet Walker has an impressive hold on how women really think, and she sweeps the reader into the book’s suspenseful world, skillfully capturing both the sparkly mania of the fashion world and the strange bell jar of new motherhood. I can’t wait to read more from her.”—Andrea Bartz, author of The Herd and The Lost Night

“Keenly observed and brimming with tension, The New Girl is a must-read.”—Clare Mackintosh, New York Times bestselling author of I Let You Go

“Taut, stylish, utterly gripping . . . satisfied all my thriller cravings and my love of fashion-world gossip.”—Lucy Foley, author of The Guest List
 
“I was so absorbed by The New Girl. In this suspenseful debut, Harriet Walker applies the finest of brushes to those shades of gray between friendship and rivalry—not so much domestic noir as domestic gris. I recommend.”—Louise Candlish, author of Those People
  

“A wickedly funny psychological thriller that’s in turn brutal and tender.”Publishers Weekly