"Driven by desire, jealousy and revenge, everyone is under suspicion and guilty of something in this powerful, edgy and addictive novel by the queen of psychological drama, Ashley Audrain. Nobody delves as deep into the guts of motherhood as Ashley Audrain, she really is in a league of her own." - Lisa Jewell "Spellbinding, a shimmering, visceral ride through the dark side of family, of community, of womanhood and mothering. In her electrifying new novel, The Whispers, the unspoken fears, desires, and shame of four neighbours threaten the lives they've so carefully constructed. "No one understands the secret lives of women like Ashley Audrain. Every time I turned a page, I thought: yes! This is why I read-to connect, to feel seen, to be confronted with my deepest fears, and, of course, to go on a breathtakingly suspenseful ride while doing it." - Chandler Baker "Ashley Audrain writes about motherhood and how it feels to be a woman today with a fearlessness few can muster. Exploring the quiet sacrifices of motherhood, the intuitions that we silence, the complexities of our closest friendships, and the danger of envy, this is a novel about the reverberations of life's most difficult decisions. Set against the heartwrenching drama of what will happen to Xavier, who hangs between death and life, or a life changed forever, THE WHISPERS is a novel about what happens when we put our needs ahead of our children's.
The story spins out over the course of one week, in the alternating voices of the women in each family as they are forced to face the secrets within the walls of their own homes, and the uncomfortable truths that connect them all to one another. Back home, their friends and neighbors are left in shock, each confronting their own role in the events that led up to what happened that terrible night: the warm, altruistic Parks who are the Loverlys' best friends the young, ambitious Goldsmiths who are struggling to start a family of their own and the quiet, elderly Portuguese couple who care for their adult son with a developmental disability, and who pass the long days on the front porch, watching their neighbors go about their busy lives. From the author of THE PUSH, a pageturner about four suburban families whose lives are changed when the unthinkable happens-and what is lost when good people make unconscionable choices The Loverlys sit by the hospital bed of their young son who is in a coma after falling from his bedroom window in the middle of the night his mother, Whitney, will not speak to anyone.
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