The Push by Ashley Audrain

 If you are a fan of Baby Teeth , We need to talk about Kevin or The Bad Seed this book is right up your alley. 

Ashley Audrain, psychological thriller is rather sinister.  Her debut novel is multilayered, complex and will keep you on the edge of your seat. 

Blythe and her husband are expecting a child. He is over the moon but she is going into it with trepidation and fear. Women in her family have a history of not adapting well to motherhood (which is explored further in the novel). Blythe was abused as a child but she tries to put it all behind her when her daughter Violet is born. She goes into thinking she will be a good mother but it's hard to mother a child like Violet. 

Violet is difficult to love and there is something fundamentally wrong with her. Blythe is trying to push through it bu than an incident occurs that breaks the foundations of her marriage and her relationship with Violet to the core. 

Expect an emotional, raw read with flawed characters.