The Push

The Push

Ashley Audrain

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An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. 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. 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. 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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    now i’m scared to have kids

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    4.9 *** I felt like this book showed how a persons life, a child’s relationship to their mother is affected immediately from birth. If Blythe was there more and Loved Violet like she should have, their relationship would have been so different. Do I believe everything that was said was true? Yes, I do. I believe Violet did all of those things even up to the last sentence of the book. It’s not a 5 star read because I’m not a huge fan of open endings on books that don’t have sequels. And I didn’t like how they brushed over Blythe’s mom’s ending in her adult life so quickly. I also couldn’t stand Fox lmao. If we were to ever get a sequel, I would like to see it in other perspectives, maybe of Fox’s retelling what happened in his eyes, or in Violets.

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