The push : a novel / Ashley Audrain.
A tense psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family, told through the eyes of a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for--and everything she feared.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780735239890 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 307 pages ; 23 cm
- Publisher: [Toronto] : Viking, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
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Subject: | Motherhood > Fiction. |
Genre: | Psychological fiction. Thrillers (Fiction) Domestic fiction. |
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- 27 of 39 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Terrace Public Library.
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âUtterly addictive.â âPaula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train
âWritten with an unflinching eye and a stylistically sharp, tight economy The Push is a single-sitting read, as suspenseful as any thriller, as thoughtful as any literary novel, with an almost physical force behind each of its turns and revelations.â âToronto Star
A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family, and about a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for, and everything she feared.
Blythe Connor is determined to be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby, Violet, that she never had.
But in the thick of motherhoodâs exhausting early days, Blythe doesnât find the connection with her daughter she expected. Sheâs convinced something is wrong with Violetâshe is distant, rejects affection, and becomes increasingly disruptive at preschool.
Or is it all in Blytheâs head? Her husband, Fox, says sheâs imagining things. Fox doesnât see what she sees; he sees a wife who is struggling to cope with the day-to-day challenges of being amother. 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 bornâand with him, Blythe has the natural maternal connection sheâd always dreamed of. Even Violet seems to love her little brother. But when life as they know it is changed in an instant, the devastating fallout forces Blythe to face the truth.
The Push is a rare and extraordinary gift to readers: an utterly immersive novel that will challenge everything you think you know about motherhood, about what we owe our children, about what really happens behind the closed doors of even the most perfect-looking families and about what it feels like when women are not believed.