Ashley Audrain Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Ashley Audrain
Ashley Audrain is a Canadian author who was born in 1982 in Newmarket, York Region. A resident of Toronto, Audrain is the mother of a son named Oscar and a daughter called Waverly. In 2005, Ashley graduated from the Western University, where she undertook Media, Information and Technoculture studies. She also studied writing at the George Brown College.

Between 2013 and 2015; Ashley Audrain had a stint at Penguin Books Canada, where she worked as the company’s publicity director—her interaction with established authors therein inspired her greatly. Among the literary personalities that influenced Ashley include: American author Ann Matthews Martin, especially through her serialized The Baby-Sitters Club; French American author Leila Slimani; Canadian author Alice Ann Munro; American author Celeste Ng; and English novelist Paula Hawkin’s 2015 book The Girl on the Train.

Ashley specializes in fiction, particularly the psychological, thriller and mystery sub-genres. Ashley’s representative is agent Madeleine Milburn of Madeleine Milburn Ltd.

Ashley Audrain’s reading passion also runs in her family. Her literary work showcases her real-life view of motherhood. Ashley used to write for fun. However, her book-writing journey began 2015, when her problematic motherhood forced her to quit her publicist position at Penguin Books Canada to tend her oftentimes sickly baby. Her writing was more or less therapy, escapism, and a way to ease her energetic self.
She used to write early in the morning while her children slept. However, some sections of her first book were written in hotels, especially when babysitters came through for her or after sneaked from SickKids, where their child was under medicare care.
Prior to its publication, Ashley’s first book went through beta readers who included her husband. Her desire for a genuine preview saw her book-writing process receive a last-minute guidance from Canadian author Amy Jones—and, afterwards, publisher Nicole Winstanley’s advise—through the then newly established Flying Books School of Reading &Writing, where Ashley had sought personalized mentorship.

Ashley Audrain: Books Written
Ashley Audrain has written standalone books. Ashley’s first book is titled The Push. The said book has about 40 editions, of which the earliest format is a 320-page hardcover edition that Pamela Dorman Books released on January 5, 2021.

The Push has tens of other formats from various publishers, including: a 317-page Kindle edition, dated January 5, 2021, also from Pamela Dorman Books; a 320-page paperback edition, also dated January 5, 2021, from Viking Press that also released a 317-page Kindle edition on the same day; a 320-page hardcover edition from Penguin Michael Joseph and dated January 7, 2021; a 328-page paperback Portuguese version titled O Impulso that Paralela 45 Publishing House released on January 22, 2021; and a 328-page paperback Spanish version called El instinto that Alfaguara released on March 23, 2021.
More formats: a 348-page paperback Italian version titled La Spinta that Rizzoli released on January 12, 2021; an audiobook edition that Penguin Audio was released on January 5, 2021; a 256-page paperback Estonian edition version titled Kahtlus that Helios Kirjastus released on January 2, 2021; a 448-page large print, paperback edition that Random House released on January 5, 2021; a 284-page paperback Dutch version titled De Duw that Prometheus released on January 12, 2021.

A 352-page paperback Romanian version titled Indoiala that Editura Litera released in January 2021; a 368-page paperback Polish version titled Odruch that Proszynski i S-ka released on January 12, 2012; a 272-page paperback Bulgarian version titled Мракът в сърцето ми that Millenium Publishing released in early 2021; a Kindle Catalan version titled L’instint that Columna CAT released on February 17, 2021; a Finnish version titled Lapsi rakas that Otava released in early 2021; and a hardcover Norwegian version titled Mitt kalde hjerte that Gyldendal Norsk Forlag AS released on May 12, 2021.
Book’s plot: in her autobiographical The Push, Ashley Audrain explores the downside of motherhood, based on her first-hand experience. The protagonist is first-time parent Blythe Connor who looks forward to an exciting motherhood while tending her firstborn toddler Violet—and, afterwards, tending her second born Sam—but repeatedly experiences hereditary emotional exhaustion, which her one-time schoolmate husband Fox sees as a meaningless self-inducement.

Praise for Ashley Audrain’s Literary Work
Ashley Audrian’s book The Push has been praised immensely. The book has also received a generally warm reception from book reviewers, based on the thousands of high ratings on e-book listings. Moreover, the book has earned a bestselling status in major publications, including the Globe and Mail and the New York Times.

Ashley’s work has been compared to those of American author Lionel Shriver, Leila Slimani, and American novelist Gillian Schieber Flynn’s 2012 book Gone Girl. She has been described as a writer of the century.
Ashley’s book deal earned her $1.2 million in the UK book market alone. An estimation of the yet-to-be-disclosed book deal for the North American market brings the total book deal to around $3 million.

Film Adaptations of Ashley Audrain’s Book
The Universal Studio Group, through its subsidiary Heyday Television, owns the film rights of Ashley Audrain’s book The Push. English filmmaker David Jonathan Heyman is working on the film adaptation, wherein Ashley Audrain’s role is that of an executive producer.
Other Books You May Like
Those who enjoyed Ashley Audrain’s book also read these literary works. One of them is Ted Dekker’s December 2006 book Thr3e: it is about driver Kevin Parson whom little-known criminal Slate draws into confession-fueled death race; Parson’s last-minute escape from a timed car bombing kick-starts the attempts on his life, wherein the FBI comes to his rescue.
Another fan-favorite is Lara Prescott’s September 2019 book The Secrets We Kept: it has a Cold War-era plot, where two CIA spies are mandated to infiltrate Russia and smuggle the then unpublished manuscript of Boris Pasternak’s 1957 romance book Doctor Zhivago so as to enable its author’s desire for worldwide publications.
Readers also liked Teresa Driscoll’s October 2017 book I Am Watching You: the protagonist is Ella Longfield, a train passenger who belatedly reacts to ex-prisoners that sweet-talked onboard underage girls, including a girl whose disappearance prompts her risky response.