The Push

Blythe Connor is determined to be the warm, supportive mother she never had. Her desire is to create a loving family, a safe haven from the difficult childhood that haunts her. But when her daughter Violet is born, Blythe struggles to connect. The baby is colicky and distant, and the exhausting early days of motherhood spiral into a persistent, terrifying thought: something is wrong with her child. Her husband, Fox, sees a perfect little girl and believes Blythe is projecting her own fears onto their daughter. As his dismissals mount, Blythe begins to question her own sanity.

This psychological drama explores the darker side of motherhood and the legacy of trauma passed through generations. It is a story about the making and breaking of a family, centered on a woman whose experience of being a mother is nothing she hoped for and everything she feared. The narrative challenges perceptions of motherhood and forces the reader to confront an unsettling question: what happens when a mother's deepest fears about her own child are the ones that turn out to be true?