Ashley Audrain has 5 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 6 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.7★ across 350 ratings. The most-rated is The Push.
The Push
Summary
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick "An intense psychological drama that will be embraced by serious book clubs and fans of Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk about Kevin." (Kristin Hannah, number one New York Times best-selling author) "A poetic, propulsive read that set my nerves jangling." (Lisa Jewell, number one New York Times best-selling author of Then She Was Gone) A tense, pause-resisting psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family - and a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for - and everything she feared. Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby, Violet, that she herself never had. But in the thick of motherhood's exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter - she doesn't behave like most children do. Or is it all in Blythe's head? Her husband, Fox, says she's imagining things. The more Fox dismisses her fears, the more Blythe begins to question her own sanity, and the more we begin to question what Blythe is telling us about her life as well. Then their son, Sam, is born - and with him, Blythe has the blissful connection she'd always imagined with her child. Even Violet seems to love her little brother. But when life as they know it is changed in an instant, the devastating fallout forces Blythe to face the truth. The Push is a tour de force you will listen to in a sitting, an utterly immersive novel that will challenge everything you think you know about motherhood, about what we owe our children, and what it feels like when women are not believed.
©2021 Ashley Audrain (P)2021 Penguin Audio
The Push
Summary
Instant international best seller “Written with an unflinching eye and a stylistically sharp, tight economy The Push is a single-sitting read, as suspenseful as any thriller, as thoughtful as any literary novel, with an almost physical force behind each of its turns and revelations." (Toronto Star) A tense psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family, told through the eyes of a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for - and everything she feared. Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, supportive mother she never had to her new baby, Violet. But in the thick of motherhood's exhausting early days, Blythe doesn't find the connection with her daughter she expected. She's convinced that something is wrong with Violet - the little girl is distant, rejects affection, and becomes increasingly disruptive at preschool. Or is it all in Blythe's head? Her husband, Fox, says she is imagining things. Fox doesn't see what Blythe sees; he sees a wife who is struggling to cope with the day-to-day challenges of being a mother. And the more Fox dismisses her fears, the more Blythe begins to question her own sanity.... Then their son, Sam, is born - and with him, Blythe has the natural maternal connection she'd always dreamed of. Even Violet seems to love her little brother. But when life as they know it is changed in an instant, the devastating fall-out forces Blythe to face the truth about herself, her past, and her daughter. The Push is a rare and extraordinary gift to listeners: a novel about the expectations of motherhood we're taught not to challenge and what really happens behind the closed doors of even the most perfect-looking families. It's impossible to put down and impossible to forget.
©2021 Ashley Audrain (P)2021 Viking
It Was All a Lie
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An instant New York Times best seller "A brilliant, unflinching look at the descent of the GOP - backed up with data, historic sweep and first person insights. This one is a must read." (John Avlon, author of Washington’s Farewell) "I devoured an early copy in one sitting the day it arrived - highly recommend It Was All a Lie if you want to try to understand how the GOP got to this very dark place." (Elise Jordan) "It's great! Highly recommend." (Max Boot) From the most successful Republican political operative of his generation, a searing, unflinching, and deeply personal exposé of how his party became what it is today. Stuart Stevens spent decades electing Republicans at every level, from presidents to senators to local officials. He knows the GOP as intimately as anyone in America, and in this new audiobook, he offers a devastating portrait of a party that has lost its moral and political compass. This is not an audiobook about how Donald J. Trump hijacked the Republican Party and changed it into something else. Stevens shows how Trump is in fact the natural outcome of five decades of hypocrisy and self-delusion, dating all the way back to the civil rights legislation of the early 1960s. Stevens shows how racism has always lurked in the modern GOP's DNA, from Goldwater's opposition to desegregation to Ronald Reagan's welfare queens and states' rights rhetoric. He gives an insider's account of the rank hypocrisy of the party's claims to embody "family values" and shows how the party's vaunted commitment to fiscal responsibility has been a charade since the 1980s. When a party stands for nothing, he argues, it is only natural that it will be taken over by the loudest and angriest voices in the room. It Was All a Lie is not just an indictment of the Republican Party, but a candid and often lacerating mea culpa. Stevens is not asking for pity or forgiveness; he is simply telling us what he has seen firsthand. He helped to create the modern party that kneels before a morally bankrupt con man, and now he wants nothing more than to see what it has become burned to the ground.
©2020 Stuart Stevens (P)2020 Random House Audio
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El instinto [The Push]
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El lanzamiento más esperado de 2021 en más de treinta países. Una madre. Una hija. Una historia con dos caras. «Creíamos que nos conocíamos el uno al otro. Creíamos que nos conocíamos a nosotros mismos.» Blythe ya no sabe qué es verdad y qué es mentira: ¿está viviendo la vida feliz que siempre deseó, con un marido perfecto y una hija angelical? ¿O está repitiendo la sórdida historia de su madre y su abuela, marcada por el desapego y el maltrato? ¿Es Fox, su marido, el compañero y padre ideal, o tiene una vida paralela que cada día lo aleja más de su casa? Su hija Violet ¿es una niña brillante y complicada, que solo quiere que su madre le preste más atención, o es malvada de nacimiento? Depende del momento y de cómo se mire, todo y nada puede parecer verdad o parecer una trampa. El instinto es una novela que se queda grabada. Una historia de horror y redención, una exploración del origen de la maldad y del modo ominoso en que los traumas familiares se transmiten de madres a hijas. Esta es, en definitiva, una historia valiente que da pie a que cada lector se interrogue sobre cuestiones dolorosas, personales y, por ello, necesarias. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2021 Ashley Audrain Creative Inc. (P)2021 Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S.A.U.
Der Verdacht
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Sie wollte die perfekte Mutter sein, bekam aber das falsche Kind... Violet ist ein Wunschkind, und Blythe möchte die liebevolle Mutter sein, die ihr selbst so sehr fehlte. Doch als man ihr das Neugeborene in den Arm legt, ist es ihr vollkommen fremd. Je älter Violet wird, desto sicherer ist sie sich, dass das Mädchen nicht nur feindselig ist, sondern ihr Böses will. Alles nur Einbildung? Ihr Ehemann Fox, der seine Tochter von ganzem Herzen liebt, beobachtet seine Frau mit wachsendem Misstrauen, und die einst so glückliche Ehe gerät in eine schwere Krise. Erst mit der Geburt des zweiten Kindes wendet sich scheinbar alles wieder zum Guten. Bis zu jenem Tag, an dem die Tragödie über die Familie hereinbricht - und Blythe sich der Wahrheit stellen muss. >> Diese ungekürzte Hörbuch-Fassung genießt du digital exklusiv nur bei Audible.
©2021 Penguin Verlag. Übersetzung von Ulrike Wasel und Klaus Timmermann (P)2021 der Hörverlag