But when life as they know it is changed in an instant, the devastating fallout forces Blythe to face the truth. Even Violet seems to love her little brother. Then, their son, Sam, is born-and with him, Blythe has the natural maternal connection she’d always dreamed of. 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. Fox doesn’t see what she sees he sees a wife who is struggling to cope with the day-to-day challenges of being amother.

Or is it all in Blythe’s head? Her husband, Fox, says she’s imagining things. She’s convinced something is wrong with Violet-she is distant, rejects affection, and becomes increasingly disruptive at preschool. “Written 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.” - Toronto StarĪ 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.īlythe Connor is determined to be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby, Violet, that she never had.īut in the thick of motherhood’s exhausting early days, Blythe doesn’t find the connection with her daughter she expected. “Utterly addictive.” -Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train SHORTLISTED for the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize WINNER of the 2022 Crime Writers of Canada Best First Crime Novel

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