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How far would someone go to replace you? A new mother on maternity leave grows increasingly paranoid about her ambitious young temp in this Hitchcockian debut from the fashion editor atThe Times(UK).Margot is the object of every woman's envy: as an editor at Hauteshe has a glamorous job a beautiful new baby girl a seemingly perfect life.How far would someone go to replace you? A new mother on maternity leave grows increasingly paranoid about her ambitious young temp in this Hitchcockian debut from the fashion editor atThe Times(UK).Margot is the object of every woman's envy: as an editor at Hauteshe has a glamorous job a beautiful new baby girl a seemingly perfect life. But when Margot's lifelong friend Winnie loses her own newborn boy their shared dream of pushing strollers together turns to ash. And then there is the matter of Margot's maternity temp: bright plucky ambitious Maggie--the young woman Margot chose but who now seems to be trying to eclipse her in every possible way.When a cyber-stalker emerges mocking Margot's façade of perfection and threatening to expose a dark secret she's spent years repressing Margot feels attacked from all sides. Soon the innocent preoccupations of motherhood spiral quickly--and perhaps lethally--into a frightening and irretrievable paranoia.The New Girl is whiplash-paced and a harrowing look into the profound sense of insecurity that prowls deep in the psyches of women everywhere.(less)