It would make me feel I was connected, and I grew to really love that golden hour of writing. Every evening from about five to seven I would put my phone on airplane mode, and I would listen to those coffee shop sounds. It really, really helped so I would do that every day. “But I realised that I could recreate a cafe at home by listening to ambient coffee shop noise on YouTube. I normally write in cafes and I really, really missed being able to write around the murmur of other people. “Then about two months into lockdown I returned to it. “I had started writing it before everything but then I did that classic thing when you’re writing a book of re-reading it all and going, ‘This is just rubbish. I don’t have children, so I didn’t have to home school, so this was my thing. I think there are a lot of things during lockdown that people found that got them through and I should start off by saying I didn’t bake a single loaf of banana bread. “Yes, it was weird and it also kept me sane. It was hard but kept her going through a difficult time and she found unusual ways to cope with missing her usual writing locations. So I’m extremely happy to hear that you couldn’t see it coming.”ĭay wrote much of this novel during the successive lockdowns of the last year. I couldn’t do it with Gone Girl and I couldn’t do it with The Sixth Sense but that’s it. “I pride myself on being able to spot a twist a mile off and normally I can do it. I basically wrote the whole thing before I could show it to them because I genuinely wanted to get their sincere reaction.
I didn’t want to show it to my editor or my agent until I’d got to the twist.
“I love hearing that because that’s the thing when you’re writing something with a twist. Magpie is a psychological thriller about motherhood and it comes with a twist. Occupational hazard,” she laughs when I tell her to stop asking me questions.
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