What happens next, over the course of a tense three days, as each of these women grapple with what led to that terrible night?Įxploring 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. 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. Before long, that same young boy falls from his bedside window in the middle of the night. Everyone at the party hears her exquisite veneer crack-loud and clear. 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.Įverything is fabulous until the picture-perfect hostess explodes in fury because her son disobeys her. “ electrifying…razor-sharp page-turner.” -Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer Afterįeatured in summer reading recommendations by Good Morning America, TIME, ELLE, The Washington Post & moreįrom 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 delivers a sucker-punch ending you’ll have to read twice to believe.”- The New York Times Book Review

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