Intensely absorbing, gripping until the final page, The Push excavates the myths of motherhood, deftly exploring the shape-shifting landscape of parenting, the powerful impact of the past on the present, and the deep unease of our inability to ever fully know even those we hold the closest' - Kim Edwards, bestselling author of The Memory Keeper's Daughter 'The most thought-provoking exploration of motherhood I've come across since We Need to Talk About Kevin' - Clare Pooley Raw, visceral, and often disturbing, this is an intense psychological drama' - Kristin Hannah 'Starkly original and compulsively readable, The Push is a deep dive into the darkest nooks and crannies of motherhood. Complex, nuanced, and unflinching, I inhaled this debut in one sitting' - Karma Brown, bestselling author of Recipe for a Perfect Wife Audrain's astute portrayal of motherhood was unsettling in its insights, yet highly entertaining on the page. 'With its riveting prose and deep convictions, Ashley Audrain's The Push had me in its clutches from the first page. I found it disturbing, upsetting, and utterly compelling' - Beth Morrey, author of Saving Missy

The Push is a freight train of a read - it barrels into you and propels you along, taking you places you're not sure you want to go. Dazzling and gloriously complete' - Daisy Buchanan I read it one sitting and it stayed with me for days afterwards. The Push is her first novel.' The Push was a poetic, propulsive read that set my nerves jangling in both horror and recognition. ( From Viking)Īshley Audrain is the former publicity director of Penguin Canada. 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.

But when life as they know it is changed in an instant, the devastating fall-out forces Blythe to face the truth. Even Violet seems to love her little brother. Then their son Sam is born – and with him, Blythe has the blissful connection she'd always imagined with her child. 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. Or is it all in Blythe's head? Her husband, Fox, says she's imagining things. Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had.īut 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.

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