
Ashley Audrain is a Canadian novelist who writes psychological suspense about motherhood, family dynamics, and domestic strain. She is best known for The Push and The Whispers. Her debut, The Push, became a New York Times, Sunday Times, and number-one international bestseller and was a Good Morning America Book Club pick.
Ashley Audrain is a Canadian novelist whose path to fiction ran through publishing, media study, and lived experience rather than an early public literary career. A Western University alumna and a graduate of the Media, Information and Technoculture program, she worked in public relations before becoming publicity director at Penguin Books Canada. That work immersed her in the mechanics of books and authorship, but she has also described it as a kind of informal education that sharpened her sense of what writing could be. The decisive turn came after the birth of her first child, whose early chronic illness led to weeks at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children and intensified Audrain’s interest in the gap between idealized motherhood and its harder realities. ((https://news.westernu.ca/2021/03/alumnas-debut-novel-the-push-breaks-records-and-silence-around-myths-of-motherhood/))
"No one understands the secret lives of women like Ashley Audrain"
— Carley Fortune
"Ashley Audrain is the master of simmering resentment and paranoia, mental load and motherhood"
— Catherine Cooper
"Starkly original and compulsively readable, Ashley Audrain’s The Push is a deep dive into the darkest nooks and crannies of motherhood"
— Kristin Hannah
"The magic of Ashley Audrain’s fiction lies in her ability to capture motherhood’s darkest and most difficult moments"
— Joanna Rakoff
"Ashley Audrain writes about motherhood and how it feels to be a woman today with a fearlessness few can muster"
— Chandler Baker
"Ashley Audrain’s delightfully disturbing first novel immediately established her as a voice to watch"
— CrimeReads
"With its riveting prose and deep convictions, Ashley Audrain’s The Push had me in its clutches from the first page"
— Karma Brown
"Ashley Audrain has a profound understanding of how thin the line between good and evil can be"
— Courtney Summers
"Ashley Audrain’s The Push is a force of nature, an unforgettable arrival that will linger in your heart—shimmer, darken and then haunt you"
— Claudia Dey
"Relentlessly compelling, distressing and beautiful, Ashley Audrain’s debut is the next Gone Girl, with shades of We Need to Talk About Kevin"
— Marissa Stapley
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