![]() And then it was very easy for me to close my laptop, leave the coffee shop and go home to my family.” I felt the most like myself when I was writing. Audrain had always enjoyed writing, but never found peace in the process until she was adjusting to life as a parent: “It wasn’t hard for me to spend time in these difficult scenes because they became a creative outlet. “What happens in the book is fiction, but I did draw from my own experience of certain emotions and the day-to-day life of motherhood,” she said. In a phone interview, Audrain recalled hunkering down in a Toronto coffee shop, where she easily slipped into the mind-set of a woman who believes her daughter is a bad seed. ![]() ![]() Starting when her son was 6 months old, she used every free moment to write “ The Push,” a thoughtful suspense novel about the dark side of motherhood that just spent three weeks on the hardcover fiction list. A BOOK IN THE OVEN If you are a new parent with a few hours of child care on your hands, you may be inclined to sneak in a nap, take a walk or call a friend to talk about the baby you are so eager to escape.Īshley Audrain chose a different path: writing. ![]()
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