This book took my relatively good mood and turned into a dark and miserable one that left me waking up this morning feeling maudlin and miserable. Blythe is supposed to be an unreliable narrator but doesn’t come across that way, instead of questioning whether she’s imagining violet’s behaviour I fully believed it from the get go and consequently ended up hating Fox for being so unsupportive and blind to what his daughter was doing and not supporting his wife. I was expecting to enjoy a creepy thriller and what I got instead was a depressing, mood hoovering, soul sucker of a book with the most unlikeable characters I’ve ever read. I genuinely don’t know when I’m going to learn the lesson of not buying into the hype because this was hugely disappointing for me.
But when baby Sam arrives Blythe finds in him the mother son connection she’s always wanted… But after Violet is born Blythe finds motherhood is nothing like she expected or hoped it would be, something is wrong with Violet. Flash backwards show us her experience of childhood with her neglectful and sometimes abusive mother and also of her mother Cecelia’s experiences with her own difficult mother Etta. We see young couple Fox and Blythe happy and in love and Blythe’s determination to be a good mother despite her own mother’s failings. The Push spans 3 generations of women and motherhood. Thank you to Netgalley, Penguin Michael Joseph and Ashley Audrain for my arc of The Push in exchange for an honest review.
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