The Whispers - Ashley Audrain

The Whispers

By Ashley Audrain

  • Release Date: 2023-06-06
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature
Score: 4
4
From 218 Ratings

Description

“Expertly, subtly and powerfully rendered….[The Whispers] delivers a sucker-punch ending you’ll have to read twice to believe.”—The New York Times Book Review

“[An] electrifying…razor-sharp page-turner.” —Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After

Featured in summer reading recommendations by Good Morning America, TIME, ELLE, The Washington Post & more

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


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.

Reviews

  • Excellent!

    5
    By FeetyPJs
    I can’t wait to read her next book!
  • Hated the ending

    4
    By mmjimenezrn
    This book definitely kept me interested. Lots of drama going on behind the scenes of these couples seemingly normal lives. I thought the ending was unrealistic but overall a good book
  • Ending

    1
    By RFJxxxx
    Worst ending for a book.
  • Page Turner

    5
    By Mle Verde
    This book was never dull and the themes of struggles in motherhood layered with fidelity and identity made it a rich read.
  • Cool but not as the Push

    4
    By mary jane rose lilly
    Interesting read, but too many unnecessary details to my taste.
  • Awful

    2
    By areyoufinkiddingme
    I enjoyed The Push. I did not like this one though. It never got back to the Epilogue and what happed with Aiden. It did not finish the story about Rebecca or Mara. It was a truly an awful book
  • Great writing

    4
    By tmc421981
    Kept me up at night. Ending didn’t quite satisfy, thus only 4 stars in lieu of 5. Great writer though, will read more of her books.
  • Wow

    5
    By Astrid J.F
    I did not want to put it down until I was done. Ashley Audrain has outdone herself again