Can’t Wait Wednesday #40 – The Whispers

Can’t Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have yet to be released. It’s based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the Jill at Breaking the Spine. So let me introduce you my Can’t Wait Wednesday #40 pick! Click on the book’s cover to add it to your Goodreads shelf.

From The Publisher:

From the author of THE PUSH, a pageturner about four suburban families whose lives are changed when the unthinkable happens–and what is lost when good people make unconscionable choices.

The Loverlys sit by the hospital bed of their young son who is in a coma after falling from his bedroom window in the middle of the night; his mother, Whitney, will not speak to anyone. Back home, their friends and neighbors are left in shock, each confronting their own role in the events that led up to what happened that terrible night: the warm, altruistic Parks who are the Loverlys’ best friends; the young, ambitious Goldsmiths who are struggling to start a family of their own; and the quiet, elderly Portuguese couple who care for their adult son with a developmental disability, and who pass the long days on the front porch, watching their neighbors go about their busy lives.

The story spins out over the course of one week, in the alternating voices of the women in each family as they are forced to face the secrets within the walls of their own homes, and the uncomfortable truths that connect them all to one another. Set against the heartwrenching drama of what will happen to Xavier, who hangs between death and life, or a life changed forever, THE WHISPERS is a novel about what happens when we put our needs ahead of our children’s. Exploring the quiet sacrifices of motherhood, the intuitions that we silence, the complexities of our closest friendships, and the danger of envy, this is a novel about the reverberations of life’s most difficult decisions.

Why I’m Excited to Read The Whispers:

I really enjoyed the author’s 2021 book “The Push” for the way the author wrote about parenting. The Whispers sounds like it will be just as compelling. I look forward to the multiple POV, the secrets held, and what eventually happens to Xavier.

Does this book sound like one you’d like to read? Or, have you been lucky enough to have already read it? Let me know in the comments!

Other Editions of Can’t Wait Wednesday:

Can’t Wait Wednesday #39 – Famous in a Small Town by Viola Shipman

Can’t Wait Wednesday #38 – The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand

Can’t Wait Wednesday #37 – The Paris Daughter by Kristin Harmel