The Whispers

From the author of THE PUSH, a gripping novel about four suburban families whose lives are abruptly altered by the unimaginable and the consequences that follow when morally righteous people make terrible decisions

The Loverlys sat beside their young son's hospital bed; Whitney, his mother, won't talk to anybody. Their little kid fell out of his bedroom window in the middle of the night, leaving him in a coma. The Loverlys' closest friends, the warm-hearted and selfless Parks; the aspirational young Goldsmiths who are trying to start a family of their own; and the quiet, elderly Portuguese couple who look after their adult son with a developmental disability and spend the long days on the front porch watching their neighbors go about their busy lives are all left stunned back home. Each of them is forced to face their own part in the events that culminated in that terrible night.

Over the course of a week, the tale is told in the alternating viewpoints of the women in each family as they are forced to confront the difficult realities that bind them all to one another and the secrets that lie behind the walls of their own houses. THE WHISPERS is a story about what happens when we put our wants before of our children's, set against the heartbreaking drama of what will happen to Xavier, who swings between death and life, or a life altered forever. This book on the effects of life's most challenging choices examines the silent sacrifices of parenting, the intuitions we suppress, the complexity of our closest friendships, and the peril of jealousy.