The Push: A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)

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A Good Morning America Book Club Pick A New York Times bestseller!

"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, 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

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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.

For fans of Verity and We Need to talk about Kevin, The 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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352 pages

Average rating: 7.73

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Ladybu68
Apr 21, 2024
10/10 stars
A little disturbing but very thought provoking. Generational trauma is real. This book exams the cycle and mindset of these characters.
Fantasyfangirl
Apr 13, 2024
8/10 stars
This book was hard to follow with the story of broken relationships between generations of mothers and daughters. Once I got into it I had to see what was going to happen. I actually gasped at the ending.
Bmoschetta
Apr 12, 2024
9/10 stars
Are you a mother? Want to be a mother? Is motherhood a given natural? Are all women expected to be loving and nurturing? How much does the child’s personality influence the mother’s behavior towards it? Nature versus nurture? Just a few of the questions raised by this book, which are all worthy of consideration and discussion. This is a quick, interesting memorable read.
Syddclaire
Apr 10, 2024
8/10 stars
Read this in one sitting. Absolutely brilliant writing and I loved the story line. Looked at motherhood in a totally different perspective than societal norm and I thought it was a great read
Jmaybay
Mar 07, 2024
7/10 stars
"𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝑰 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆." 𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℙ𝕦𝕤𝕙 - Aᴜᴅᴿᴇʏ Aᴜᴅᴿᴀɪɴ ⭐ ( 7 / 10 ) First, let me start by saying...i don't know if lil Violet was the devil incarnate. But i believe in whoopins and lil miss demon baby woulda gotta few. Side note: do not get a whoopin confused with child abuse. Dont @ me about it. Im not gonna ...read more

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