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The Push: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel
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 on sale now 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.
"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 on sale now 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.
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I don't tend to read psychological dramas as I find them rather stressful but this was a book club pick and it's good to read outside my comfort zone. It took me a while get into this but once I was in, I was in! The Push is excellently written and extremely gripping. It is the tragic and heart-wrenching tale of a mother's (lack of) connection with her first-born child. There is a lot to Blythe’s character that I can relate to, for example I will often make decisions based on pleasing people, and I watched her do this over and throughout the novel. As a mother I felt like I experienced all the emotions and concerns Blythe does as she watches her daughter grown into a person she just doesn't understand, or like. Ashley Audain is a suspense wizard and keeps the reader on their seat with all the twists and turns, and the unexpected twists. You're in for a ride! Trigger warning: if you have struggled with breastfeeding or post-natal depression, this book may touch a nerve.
Our first pick, Ashley Audrain's debut, "The Push," a suspenseful tale of a mother's harrowing journey, rated 4 STARS by our members.
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