Ashley Audrain

Ashley Audrain

Ashley Audrain’s debut novel, The Push, was a New York Times and Sunday Times (London) #1 international bestseller and a Good Morning America Book Club pick. It has sold in more than 40 territories, and a limited television series is currently in development. Audrain previously worked as the publicity director of Penguin Books Canada, and prior to that she worked in public relations. Her new novel, The Whispers, is an instant national bestseller. She lives in Toronto, where she and her partner are raising their two young children.

Website: ashleyaudrain.com
Instagram: @ashleyaudrain

FESTIVAL BOOK

The Whispers

<blockquote>Enticing, nuanced, and unflinching, The Whispers opens a secret portal into the private lives of women in suburbia. A narrative portrait of motherhood and marriage, of loneliness and longing, of loss and desire… truly masterful. <em>–Nita Prose </em></blockquote>
<strong>A propulsive page-turner about four families whose lives are changed when the unthinkable happens – and what is lost when we give in to our own worst impulses.</strong>

On Harlow Street, the well-to-do neighbourhood couples and their children gather for a catered barbecue as the summer winds down; drinks continue late into the night.

Everything is fabulous until the picture-perfect hostess explodes in fury because her son disobeys her.  Everyone at the party hears her exquisite veneer crack – loud and clear.  Soon after, that same young boy falls from his bedside window in the middle of the night.  And then, his mother can only sit by her son’s hospital bed, where she refuses to speak to anyone, including her best friend who lives across the street.

What follows is the unravelling of four families on this street, as they try to understand what happened that night, and what secrets are being kept between friends and neighbours, ones that connect them all in ways they don’t know.

Exploring envy, women’s friendships, desire, and the intuitions that we silence, <em>The Whispers </em>is a chilling novel that marks Audrain as a major women’s fiction talent.

<strong>GET THE BOOK</strong>

<a href="https://store.shelflifebooks.ca/item/rC8Hn_GwKfRO3HaNtzYuKw">Shelf Life Books</a> | <a href="https://calgary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S95C1502374">Calgary Public Library</a> | <a href="https://www.audible.ca/pd/The-Whispers-Audiobook/B0BK2PLHRT?qid=1689971395&amp;sr=1-1&amp;ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&amp;pf_rd_p=b278ed0a-c3b2-4491-808c-7cb2190a487c&amp;pf_rd_r=33FJBXCBXT99PB07KHXD&amp;pageLoadId=3K8JWKYx59jXAQnj&amp;creativeId=0d6f6720-f41c-457e-a42b-8c8dceb62f2c">Audible</a>

<strong>BE CURIOUSER</strong>
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<li>Video: Ashley Audrain on her latest thriller novel <em>The Whispers</em> – <a href="https://globalnews.ca/video/9750069/ashley-audrain-on-her-latest-thriller-novel-the-whispers">Global News</a></li>
<li>Podcast: Writing process, the path to success, and <em>The Whispers</em> with Ashley Audrain (Note: contains spoilers beginning halfway through) – <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/2DcUy15PPxeE2Jb2Se0rag?si=c343b2d398404ff7">The Best Hang Podcast</a></li>
<li>Wordfest Presents Ashley Audrain &amp; Karma Brown – <a href="https://wordfest.com/2021/watch/wordfest-presents-ashley-audrain-karma-brown/">Wordfest Imagine on Air</a></li>
<li>What you don’t know about your neighbors can hurt you – <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/03/books/review/the-whispers-ashley-audrain.html">The New York Times</a></li>
<li>Ashley Audrain’s new book <em>The Whispers</em> a razor-sharp thriller examining contemporary morality and beliefs – <a href="https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/reviews/2023/06/06/ashley-audrains-new-book-the-whispers-a-razor-sharp-thriller-examining-contemporary-morality-and-beliefs.html">The Toronto Star</a></li>
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ALL EVENTS WITH Ashley Audrain

12 PM
The Most Thrilling Lunch
Oct 13 @ 12 PM MT - 1:30 PM MT

119 12 Ave SW

119 12 Ave SW
1 PM
From Book to Screen to Scream
Oct 14 @ 1 PM MT - 2:15 PM MT

Memorial Park Library, 2nd Floor

1221 2 St SW
11 AM
What a Pair! Ashley Audrain & Louise Candlish
Oct 15 @ 11 AM MT - 12 PM MT

Memorial Park Library, 2nd Floor

1221 2 St SW

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