Hush

Details:

• author: Kate Maxwell
• full title: Hush
• narrator: Elizabeth Brennan
  
• genre: general fiction
  
• topics: #motherhood, #family, #children, #work
  
• publisher: Bolinda Audio
  
• publish date: 12 May 2023
  
• timing: 10:48:00
  
  

My Rating of the Audiobook:

• content: 💙💙💙.5
• narration: 💙💙💙💙

Excerpt from the Book: 

He looks nothing like me. That's what surprises me most. I expected to find something familiar in his features: my wonky earlobes, perhaps, or barely there top lip - something that says: half of you is me. But when the midwife passes him to me and we stare at each other, his eyes inky, it seems, with reproach, I don't recognise him at all.

My Thoughts:

Stevie is thirty-eight and has a successful career in New York. She has another wish - to have a baby, but her time is running out, and she is single. But this is not an obstacle. She decides she wants to be a single mother and moves to London, away from her family and friends. When her son Ash is born, nothing is as she expected. She can’t get used to being a mother and wants her previous life back.

Hush, a debut novel by Kate Maxwell, is an honest view of motherhood and womanhood. I liked the narration by Elizabeth Brennan. Her English accent was great, but I didn’t always like switching to the American accent.

About the Author: 

Kate Maxwell has worked as a journalist and editor in London and New York. Hush is her first novel and was shortlisted for the Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award. She lives in London with her husband and children.