{"product_id":"the-silent-listener-lyn-yeowart-9781761046735","title":"The Silent Listener","description":"\u003cp\u003e'A wickedly dark debut - haunting and unputdownable.' Christian White, author of The Nowhere Child \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'The Silent Listener is simply unforgettable.' Sydney Morning Herald\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A tale of suspense and revenge, beautifully written.' The Age\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A deftly wrought suspense novel from a remarkable new literary talent . . . A book that should be atop of everyone's reading list.' J. P. Pomare, author of Call Me Evie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA missing 9-year-old girl... An old man murdered when he had only days to live... An 'accident' from long ago that no one talks about.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJoy Henderson's family is drowning in fear, secrets and lies. Even as a child, she's aware of her father's two sides- much-loved pillar of the community in public, diabolical monster behind closed doors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty years later, when Joy returns to the family's remote farm to care for him on his deathbed, she decides it's time that everyone knows the truth... \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith her sister Ruth whispering dark words of revenge, Joy sets about making sure that her father pays dearly for his past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut the best laid plans never unfold quite  the way you expect them to...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSet in rural Australia - where the weather, the isolation, and the secrets are extreme - The Silent Listener is a book that grips you from its opening sentence to its unforgettable ending.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e****\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A book that should be atop of everyone's reading list. The prose is spectacular, and the characters so richly imagined. This is a novel about inherited violence and redemption packaged as a cracking psychological thriller.' J. P. Pomare, author of Call Me Evie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Intense, intricate, emotionally devastating. This is proper Australian gothica.' Liam Pieper, author of Sweetness and Light\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Totally addictive.' Books+Publishing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A cracking thriller with heart. It intrigues, it twists and turns, it deftly combines the muddy domestic details of life on a Victorian farm with a black, Gothic sensibility of lies and violence and the heartbreaking fantasy world of a young child.' Jane Sullivan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Any book that keeps the reader up past midnight, gorging on words, has a lot going for it. The Silent Listener is just such a book; it's almost impossible to stop reading.' Canberra Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Steeped in atmosphere and with taut, intricate plotting, The Silent Listener, contrary to its title, had me audibly gasping throughout.' Benjamin Stevenson, author of Either Side of Midnight\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lyn Yeowart","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43176563867891,"sku":"9781761046735","price":22.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9781761046735.jpg?v=1662086018","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-silent-listener-lyn-yeowart-9781761046735","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}