A Good Morning America Book Club Pick A New York Times
bestseller!
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"Utterly addictive." --Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the
Train**
"Hooks you from the very first page and will have you racing to get to
the end."--Good Morning America
A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking
of a family--and a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at
all what she hoped for--and everything she feared
Ashley Audrain's second novel, The Whispers, is forthcoming in June
2023
Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting mother
to her new baby Violet that she herself never had.
But in the thick of motherhood's exhausting early days, Blythe becomes
convinced that something is wrong with her daughter--she doesn't behave
like most children do.
Or is it all in Blythe's head? Her husband, Fox, says she's imagining
things. The more Fox dismisses her fears, the more Blythe begins to
question her own sanity, and the more we begin to question what Blythe
is telling us about her life as well.
Then their son Sam is born--and with him, Blythe has the blissful
connection she'd always imagined with her child. Even Violet seems to
love her little brother. But when life as they know it is changed in an
instant, the devastating fall-out forces Blythe to face the truth.
For fans of Verity and We Need to talk about Kevin, The The Push
is a tour de force you will read in a sitting, an utterly immersive
novel that will challenge everything you think you know about
motherhood, about what we owe our children, and what it feels like when
women are not believed.
