
Even Violet seems to love her little brother. Then their son Sam is born-and with him, Blythe has the blissful connection she'd always imagined with her child. 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. Or is it all in Blythe's head? Her husband, Fox, says she's imagining things. "Hooks you from the very first page and will have you racing to get to the end."-Good Morning AmericaĪ 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 fearedĪshley Audrain's second novel, The Whispers, is forthcoming in June 2023īlythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had.īut 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.

"Utterly addictive." -Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train Description A Good Morning America Book Club Pick A New York Times bestseller!
