The Whispers by Ashley Audrain

On Harlow Street, the well-to-do neighborhood couples and their children gather for a catered barbecue as the summer winds down; drinks continue late into the night.

Everything is fabulous until the picture-perfect hostess explodes in fury because her son disobeys her. Everyone at the party hears her exquisite veneer crackloud and clear. Before long, that same young boy falls from his bedside window in the middle of the night. And then, his mother can only sit by her son's hospital bed, where she refuses to speak to anyone, and his life hangs in the balance.

What happens next, over the course of a tense three days, as each of these women grapple with what led to that terrible night.

Exploring envy, women's friendships, desire, and the intuitions that we silence,The Whispersis a chilling novel that marks Audrain as a major women's fiction talent.(From Viking)

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Ashley Audrain is the former publicity director of Penguin Canada. Her debut novel The Pushwas a New York Times bestseller. She currently lives in Toronto.

Interviews with Ashley Audrain

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Host Piya Chattopadhyay speaks to Ashley Audrain about her debut novel, The Push a searing look at motherhood told as a psychological thriller. The conversation explores the expectations put on moms, including the ones they put on themselves; what goes wrong when motherhood and womanhood get too entangled; and goes beyond "bad mom" tropes to delve into the things mothers wish they could say and why we all need to listen when they do say them.

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