The New Girl: A gripping debut of female friendship and rivalry

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

‘Keenly observed and brimming with tension, The New Girl is a must-read’ Clare Mackintosh

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Glamorous Margot Jones is the fashion editor at glossy women’s magazine Haute, and pregnant with her first child. Margot’s used to her carefully curated life being 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. So when Margot gets in touch to suggest she apply for her maternity cover at Haute, Maggie seizes the chance at living a better life - even if it’s only temporary.

But the simultaneous arrival of Margot’s baby and a brutal end to her oldest friendship sends Margot into a spiral of suspicion and paranoia. Are Maggie’s motives as innocent as they seem? And what happens at the end of the year when Margot wants her old life back - especially if Maggie decides she doesn’t want to leave?

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‘A Devil Wears Prada-meets-Gone Girl mash-up, this is a deliciously heady concoction of fashion and fear, best gobbled down whole, over one lockdown weekend’ Pandora Sykes

‘I have not been as gripped and stunned by a story since reading Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl. I could not put it down. This is a masterpiece’ Emma Gannon

‘A tense, sophisticated exploration of female friendships fraught with insecurities set in the ruthless world of fashion magazines. Gripping and thrillingly unsettling, it kept me reading through the night’ Ruth Hogan