Ashley Audrain Libri

Quando la paura segue immediatamente la più grande felicità... Violet è un bambino desiderato, e Blythe vuole essere la madre amorevole che le è sempre mancata. Ma quando le pongono il neonato tra le braccia, tutto sembra sbagliato. C'è solo rifiuto, e man mano che la bambina cresce, cresce anche la paura di Violet e del suo comportamento ostile, che Blythe non riesce a spiegare. È solo immaginazione? O la bambina è davvero intenzionalmente malvagia? Fox, che ama sua figlia con tutto il cuore, osserva sua moglie con crescente sospetto. Fino a quando un giorno il più grande sfortunato evento colpisce la famiglia – e Blythe deve affrontare la sua verità. Quando si desidera amare incondizionatamente un figlio, ma la paura è il sentimento predominante. "Il sospetto" racconta di legami familiari fatali, di ossessione e della fragilità della felicità – un romanzo profondamente sconvolgente, di grande intensità, chiarezza scioccante e brillantezza stilistica.

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.