From the New York Times bestselling author of The Push, a
propulsive page-turner about four families whose lives are changed when
the unthinkable happens--and what is lost when we give in to our own
worst impulses
On Harlow Street, the well-to-do neighborhood couples and their children
gather for a catered barbecue as the summer winds down; drinks continue
late into the night.
Everything is fabulous until the picture-perfect hostess explodes in
fury because her son disobeys her. Everyone at the party hears her
exquisite veneer crack--loud and clear. Before long, that same young boy
falls from his bedside window in the middle of the night. And then, his
mother can only sit by her son's hospital bed, where she refuses to
speak to anyone, and his life hangs in the balance.
What happens next, over the course of a tense three days, as each of
these women grapple with what led to that terrible night?
Exploring envy, women's friendships, desire, and the intuitions that we
silence, The Whispers is a chilling novel that marks Audrain as a
major women's fiction talent.
