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The whispers started long before the accident on Harlow Lane . . . There was the party, where Whitney screamed at her ten-year-old, Xavier. Afterwards, the silence was deafening. Then there's her neighbour and friend, Blair - who snoops round Whitney's house when she's not in. She'd be better off watching her own home, keeping her husband on a tighter leash... Rebecca treats sick kids. She loves them, everyone sees that. If only she and her partner had been blessed with their own. . . After the accident sends these neighbours rushing to a hospital bedside, the whispers grow into a cacophony - what really happened that night?

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.

Blythe Connor está decidida a ser la madre cálida y reconfortante que nunca tuvo para su nueva bebé, Violet. Sin embargo, en medio de los agotadores primeros días de la maternidad, Blythe se convence de que algo no va bien con su hija; no se comporta como la mayoría de los niños. ¿O será todo producto de su imaginación? Su esposo, Fox, dice que está imaginando cosas. Cuanto más Fox desestima sus temores, más comienza Blythe a cuestionar su propia cordura, y más nos cuestionamos también lo que ella nos cuenta sobre su vida. Luego nace su hijo Sam, y con él, Blythe experimenta la conexión plena que siempre había imaginado con su hijo. Incluso Violet parece querer a su hermano pequeño. Pero cuando la vida tal como la conocen cambia en un instante, las devastadoras consecuencias obligan a Blythe a enfrentar la verdad. Esta novela es una experiencia inmersiva que desafiará todo lo que crees saber sobre la maternidad, lo que le debemos a nuestros hijos y lo que se siente cuando las mujeres no son creídas.