The Push: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel

By Ashley Audrain

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.

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Published Jan 4, 2022

352 pages

Average rating: 7.55

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Readers say *The Push* is a compelling, fast-paced psychological thriller exploring motherhood, generational trauma, and nature versus nurture. Many c...

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10/10 stars
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The Push by Ashley Audrain
303 pages

What’s it about?
Blythe Connor is newly married and madly in love. Her husband wants a family, but she is worried about becoming a mother. Her family has a history of women who do not take to motherhood. When she finds herself pregnant she is determined to be a good mother and break the mold.

What did it make me think about?
Are we reliable witnesses to our own history?

Should I read it?
I love an author who knows what he/she is writing. This book never veers from being a strong psychological thriller. I can't imagine we won't be seeing this on every beach towel this summer.

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"I felt like I would never have with her what you had.
'It's all in your head,' you said to me whenever I brought it up. 'You've created this story about the two of you, and you can't let it go.' "

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10/10 stars
5 / 5

Unsettling, discomforting, and disturbing but in the most compelling of ways. The writing is fluid and well-structured allowing for a fast-paced binge read completed in a day. While most of the characters aren't particularly likable; you can't help but find yourself rooting for this mother and wanting her to succeed not only at motherhood but at having her voice heard. I was constantly questioning this seemingly unreliable narrator and how much of what she was relaying was true, false, or blurred somewhere in between. Being a wife and a mother myself, it was difficult at times reading what these characters were going through. This book will have you at the edge of your seat, flying through the pages up until the very end.
Nikkilopez
8/10 stars
The suspense of needing to know if her daughter was truly a killer almost killed me!
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5/10 stars
Didn’t love. DNF. May pick it up again
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