![]() ![]() And we thought we knew ourselves” (I mean… really?!) Thankfully, once the story gets going and we get to the present this stops, for the most part. It’s overexplained, full of reminiscing and brimming with short dramatic sentences that are supposed to be meaningful: “I didn’t have much, but I had you” and “We thought we knew each other. I confess that the start of the novel troubled me. No Gillian Flynn twists and turns to be found here. ![]() You can probably work out the whole story and the ending just a few chapters in. This is one of those novels where you know what’s coming every step of the way. I don’t want to give too much away, but the title is suggestive enough for us to know what’s coming. Yes, fellow readers this novel contains one of those horror film creepy children. Violet is a difficult baby and develops into a frighteningly calculating small child. She knows he expects her to be the perfect wife and mother, but when their firstborn comes along, Blythe is in for a rude awakening. ![]() She seems to more or less have made peace with her background but it comes back to haunt her when her picture-perfect-obsessed husband decides they need a baby. Ashley Audrain, The Push (Michael Joseph: 2021, 9780241434550)īlythe comes from a line of neglectful, abusive mothers. ![]()
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