The Push, Claire McGowan
The Push, Claire McGowan
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The Push

Author: Claire McGowan

Narrator: Justine Eyre

Unabridged: 10 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/12/2020

Synopsis

From the bestselling author of What You Did comes a stunning psychological thriller. One party. Thirteen people. By 3.02 p.m., one of them will be dead.The party should have been perfect: six couples from the same baby group, six newborns, a luxurious house. But not everything has gone to plan, and while some are here to celebrate, others have sorrows to drown. When someone falls from the balcony of the house, the secrets and conflicts within the group begin to spill out …DS Alison Hegarty, herself struggling with infertility, is called in to investigate. She’s convinced the fall was not an accident, and finds the new parents have a lot to hide. Wealthy Ed and Monica show off their newborn while their teenage daughter is kept under virtual house arrest. Hazel and Cathy conceived their longed-for baby via an anonymous sperm donor—or so Hazel thinks. Anita and Jeremy planned to adopt from America, but there’s no sign of the child. Kelly, whose violent boyfriend disrupted previous group sessions, came to the party even though she lost her baby. And then there’s Jax, who’s been experiencing strange incidents for months—almost like someone’s out to get her. Is it just a difficult pregnancy? Or could it be payback for something she did in the past?It’s a nightmare of a case, and as events get even darker it begins to look impossible. Only one thing is clear: they all have something to hide. And for one of them, it’s murder.

About Claire McGowan

Claire McGowan was born in 1981 in a small Irish village where the most exciting thing that ever happened was some cows getting loose on the road. She is the author of The Fall, What You Did, The Other Wife and the acclaimed Paula Maguire crime series. She also writes women’s fiction under the name Eva Woods.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nilufer

Oh, no! This is bad! I’m so grumpy whining bitch who didn’t get her full thriller intake! Beep beep beep: this is the alarm sound is coming out of my head. I am too tired to write an unpopular review because the book sucked my entire energy! I haven’t seen so much toxic energy and bunch of irritati......more

Goodreads review by Bridgett

I've had a terribly long run of vapid books in the past few weeks, which sucks because I have very little time to read these days. I literally only have time for my ARCs from 1 to 3 or 4 AM. Seriously. Unfortunately, The Push failed to break my streak. Hmmm...how to describe this book? 1. Full o......more

Goodreads review by Anissa

A 2.5 read for me. I picked it up because I was looking for a quick read to balance out a science fiction book I'd began. This is a very quick read about the worst antenatal (prenatal for US) group you could ever imagine culminating in a murder at a party. There are some highly unlikable characters......more

Goodreads review by Christina

I was really excited to read this book by Claire McGowan! I had recently read The Other Wife and liked it very much. This book has a lot of the same elements I liked from The Other Wife: hidden identities, suspense over who was even killed or nearby at the time through tricky narrative devices, and......more

Goodreads review by Tonya

Wow! The Push by Claire McGowan was much better than I thought it would be, given the mixed reviews I had read. It reminded me a bit of Big Little Lies. It starts with a murder. The reader is left in the dark about the victim and murderer. The resemblance however ends there. Many of the unlikable ch......more

Quotes

“You’ll be desperate to know what happened and how everything will turn out.” —The Sun“Plenty of twists and turns keep you hooked.” —Crime Monthly“It really had me gripped.” —Marian Keyes, international bestselling author of Grown Ups

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