#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' 50 BEST THRILLERS OF THE 21st CENTURY

WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS OF CANADA BEST FIRST CRIME NOVEL AWARD • SHORTLISTED FOR THE RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK

“Original and compulsively readable.” —Kristin Hannah

“Set my nerves jangling. Not to be missed.” —Lisa Jewell

“Utterly addictive.” —Paula Hawkins

“[A] taut, chilling debut.” —The New York Times

“As suspenseful as any thriller, as thoughtful as any literary
novel. . . . Stunning.” —Toronto Star

“A provocative, compulsive novel about modern motherhood.”
—Vogue

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 exhaustion of early motherhood, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter.

Or is it all in Blythe’s head? The more her husband, Fox, dismisses her fears, the more Blythe begins to question her own sanity.

Then their son, Sam, is born—and with him Blythe has the blissful connection she’d always imagined with her child. But when their lives are changed in an instant, the devastating fallout forces Blythe to face the truth.

The Push is an utterly immersive novel that will challenge everything you think you know about motherhood, what we owe our children, and what it feels like when women are not believed.