From the New York Times bestselling author of The Push a propulsive page-turner about four
families whose lives are changed when the unthinkable happens—and what is lost when we give in
to our own worst impulses “Nobody delves as deep into the guts of motherhood as Ashley Audrain
she really is in a league of her own.” —Lisa Jewell 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 crack—loud 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
Whispers is a chilling novel that marks Audrain as a major women's fiction talent.
