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A Novel
Penguin Books
January 2022
On Sale: January 4, 2022
336 pages
ISBN: 198488168X
EAN: 9781984881687
Kindle: B087BL9MML
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Thriller Domestic | Women's Fiction Family Life
Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting mother—the kind that she herself never had—to her new baby Violet. 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. She’s a new mother who can’t trust her own instincts—but can we?
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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