She lives in Toronto, where she and her partner are raising their two young children. She previously served as the publicity director of Penguin Books Canada, and prior to that, worked in public relations. 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.Īshley Audrain's debut novel, The Push, was an instant New York Times bestseller. 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. The story finds a group of neighbours, living in a moneyed area. So I have patiently awaited her follow up, I can’t wait to dive in to The Whispers. The ending left me eager to read more, such a cliffhanger.

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. I read Ashley Audrain’s debut, The Push, two years ago, and thoroughly enjoyed it. 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 whispers by ashley audrain