Unfortunately, her baby is not an innocent, easy to handle angel Violet is difficult from the moment she’s born. We’ll get there.īlythe Connor – daughter of Celia – is determined to be the attentive, gentle, wonderful mother that her own mother was not. And about the two women who spring from the both of them, Blythe and Violet. About Etta, born at the outset of World War II, whose homicidal urges damage her daughter about Celia, daughter of Etta, whose lack of self-worth -spawned by Etta’s physical abuse – causes her to self-harm and abandon her own daughter. The book is at its best when it explores the difficulties of dealing with the effects of child abuse as an adult. I found that it fell right in the middle of the pile when it came to thrillers, mostly because the execution is too good to ignore. Are some kids made to murder? Does the stain of generational trauma doom us all to failure? Depending on your point of view – and how much you like movies like The Bad Seed and We Need to Talk about Kevin, which this novel apes to some degree – and how many stories about women driven to the edge by post-partum blues you can stomach, this will be either a treat or a torture for you. The Push treads territory that’s familiar and ancient in the thriller market.
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