The Whispers: A Novel,New

Expertly, subtly and powerfully rendered.[The Whispers] delivers a suckerpunch ending youll have to read twice to believe.The New York Times Book Review[An] electrifyingrazorsharp pageturner. Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer AfterFeatured in summer reading recommendations by Good Morning America, TIME, ELLE, The Washington Post & moreFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Push, a propulsive pageturner about four families whose lives are changed when the unthinkable happensand what is lost when we give in to our own worst impulsesOn Harlow Street, the welltodo 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 pictureperfect hostess explodes in fury because her son disobeys her. Everyone at the party hears her exquisite veneer crackloud 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 sons 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, womens friendships, desire, and the intuitions that we silence, The Whispers is a chilling novel that marks Audrain as a major women's fiction talent.