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The Push: A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel) Audible Audiobook – Unabridged
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick | A New York Times best seller!
"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, pause-resisting 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 listen 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.
- Listening Length8 hours and 38 minutes
- Audible release dateJanuary 5, 2021
- LanguageEnglish
- ASINB088C3PM7N
- VersionUnabridged
- Program TypeAudiobook
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Listening Length | 8 hours and 38 minutes |
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Author | Ashley Audrain |
Narrator | Marin Ireland |
Whispersync for Voice | Ready |
Audible.com Release Date | January 05, 2021 |
Publisher | Penguin Audio |
Program Type | Audiobook |
Version | Unabridged |
Language | English |
ASIN | B088C3PM7N |
Best Sellers Rank | #1,378 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #24 in Domestic Thrillers (Audible Books & Originals) #42 in Family Life Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) #73 in Psychological Thrillers (Audible Books & Originals) |
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her. A very good book left me still pondering on it once done.
Blythe is determined to break the cycle and become the mother she never had. But when that connection never forms with her daughter, Violet, she fears that motherhood isn’t what she hoped for. When conflict and tragedy come where Violet goes, Blythe suspects that there is something wrong with her daughter. Is it all in her head? Is her intuition correct?
The Push is an addictive psychological thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat. It’s a story of multi-generational trauma, motherhood, maternal mental health, the argument of nature versus nurture, and the making and breaking of a family.
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This was a tough read for me. Not because it wasn’t done well - it *was* done well imo, but because of the emotional consistency of weight. It was heavy. Maybe it’s because I’m a mom. Or maybe it’s because I’m a woman. Or maybe it’s because the lack of care and concern for mental illness on all sides of the fence. Important things were collectively disregarded, ignored, or even forgotten on purpose between the characters, and I could only take so much at a time.
“I could barely remember the mother I had been. Motherhood is like that- there is only the now. The despair of now, the relief of now.”
l was emotionally infuriated over the societal misogyny we can't seem to recognize in our own world.
“I couldn't tell you the truth: that I believed there was something wrong with our daughter. You thought the problem was me.“
I felt so terribly bad for Blythe. She is brutally honest with nothing and no one to support her. So vulnerable, so alone. It’s heartbreaking.
“I do not wish he and I were alone without her. She talks about him when he's not there. She tells strangers about him. Every once in a while, she asks if we can go to the park alone because she misses time with just me. We do, and we swing side by side, and get vanilla ice cream cones. We go home and he is waiting for us, safe with you. I do not quietly pretend that he is my only child.”
I’m not sure if the other timelines blended into the book were necessary, or if they benefited the main story. I think I could have done without them.
“I know you believe she did. But you've made it up. You saw something happen that never did. She didn't do it.”
Something you should also know before picking this one up - it’s chapters are unconventional. There are 85 of them and the majority are single pages.
Eighty five short chapters written in an easy-to-read style packed with hard-to-stomach content, The Push is Blyth’s story interspersed with the childhoods and motherhoods of her grandmother Etta and mother Cecilia, revealing a cycle of maternal abuse, neglect and malfunction.
For me, the reading was pure feeling. Nail-biting tension, escalating dread, heartbreaking sadness, knife-edge apprehension. The images came crowding in after I’d devoured the words and will stay with me for a very long time.
In a world where Violets and Kevins are all too real, The Push is a chilling and thought-provoking work of fiction where maternal instincts are not necessarily a given and not all children are the little angels we believe them to be. An awesome debut. Highly recommended.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 12, 2024
Eighty five short chapters written in an easy-to-read style packed with hard-to-stomach content, The Push is Blyth’s story interspersed with the childhoods and motherhoods of her grandmother Etta and mother Cecilia, revealing a cycle of maternal abuse, neglect and malfunction.
For me, the reading was pure feeling. Nail-biting tension, escalating dread, heartbreaking sadness, knife-edge apprehension. The images came crowding in after I’d devoured the words and will stay with me for a very long time.
In a world where Violets and Kevins are all too real, The Push is a chilling and thought-provoking work of fiction where maternal instincts are not necessarily a given and not all children are the little angels we believe them to be. An awesome debut. Highly recommended.
Blythe Connor is pregnant with her first child, she is intent on being a perfect mother for her daughter, to give her all the love and comfort she never got from her own mother Cecilia.
But after giving birth to Violet, Blythe sees herself confronted with a child, that behaves not like other children. But apparently nobody wants to see, what she’s seeing. So, can that be true? Does it only take place in her mind? Could she suffer from postnatal depression and needs help? Or is she projecting her deepest fears, to be a bad mother, on her daughter?
Either way, her husband Fox dismisses constantly her feelings. He is basically gaslighting her. This left Blythe in a spiral of self-doubt and self-hatred.
But the more her feelings grow, the less Blythe can connect with Violet which leads eventually to Violet‘s total resentment of her mother.
After their second child Sam is born, Blythe experienced a totally new aspect of motherhood and is blessed with a deep connection to her son. But this bliss comes to a sudden end when fate strikes and brings Blythe to her knees.
As I read this novel, I had to think about Paul Harding’s prize winning novel “Tinkers” about the three generations of men and how he absolutely failed to describe their linked relationships. This is something, what Ashley Audrain did perfectly. She shows this devastating and shocking connection between Etta, Cecilia, Blythe and Violet.
Neither Etta, nor Cecilia wanted to be mothers but were pushed into this role, which influences their behaviour towards their daughters. But also Blythe didn’t chose motherhood for the right reason, not because she really wanted to be a mother but to please her husband as well as to show that she is capable to break the abusive circle and be the perfect warmly mother she desperately wanted herself.
“I started to understand, during those sleepless nights replaying the things I'd overheard, that we are all grown from something. That we carry on the seed, and I was a part of her garden.”
This psychological thriller is beautifully crafted, with short but gripping chapters. It’s a real page turner, I couldn’t put down (ask my sleep).
Reviewed in Germany on October 27, 2023
Blythe Connor is pregnant with her first child, she is intent on being a perfect mother for her daughter, to give her all the love and comfort she never got from her own mother Cecilia.
But after giving birth to Violet, Blythe sees herself confronted with a child, that behaves not like other children. But apparently nobody wants to see, what she’s seeing. So, can that be true? Does it only take place in her mind? Could she suffer from postnatal depression and needs help? Or is she projecting her deepest fears, to be a bad mother, on her daughter?
Either way, her husband Fox dismisses constantly her feelings. He is basically gaslighting her. This left Blythe in a spiral of self-doubt and self-hatred.
But the more her feelings grow, the less Blythe can connect with Violet which leads eventually to Violet‘s total resentment of her mother.
After their second child Sam is born, Blythe experienced a totally new aspect of motherhood and is blessed with a deep connection to her son. But this bliss comes to a sudden end when fate strikes and brings Blythe to her knees.
As I read this novel, I had to think about Paul Harding’s prize winning novel “Tinkers” about the three generations of men and how he absolutely failed to describe their linked relationships. This is something, what Ashley Audrain did perfectly. She shows this devastating and shocking connection between Etta, Cecilia, Blythe and Violet.
Neither Etta, nor Cecilia wanted to be mothers but were pushed into this role, which influences their behaviour towards their daughters. But also Blythe didn’t chose motherhood for the right reason, not because she really wanted to be a mother but to please her husband as well as to show that she is capable to break the abusive circle and be the perfect warmly mother she desperately wanted herself.
“I started to understand, during those sleepless nights replaying the things I'd overheard, that we are all grown from something. That we carry on the seed, and I was a part of her garden.”
This psychological thriller is beautifully crafted, with short but gripping chapters. It’s a real page turner, I couldn’t put down (ask my sleep).