The Push

by Ashley Audrain

Book Overview

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick A New York Times bestseller!

"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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1984881663
• ISBN13: 9781984881663
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Poetic Read!

Loved this writing!!

The Push

This book was impossible for me to put down. I went back and forth in my mind debating what was real and what was imagined. Like another reader I was left wanting more when the story ended. Looking forward to reading this author’s next book.

Excellent

Take notes of names. The first several chapters are hard to follow. It helped to read the about the book and characters. Lots of twist and turns.

Loved this book!

I love this book! Could not put it down! Excited to read her next book in June 2023

Loved it

Loved this book.. I love the way it was written. I will say the ending left me wanting more tho. Definitely recommend

I could not put this book down. Read cover to cover in less than 24 hours. Had me on the edge of my

The author tells a gripping story in the form of letters and flash backs. It’s certainly a psychological thriller.