Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781761046735
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2022
Publisher: Penguin Australia Pty Ltd
Pages: 480


Description:
'The Silent Listener is simply unforgettable.' Sydney Morning Herald

'A tale of suspense and revenge, beautifully written.' The Age

'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


A 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.

Joy 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.

Twenty 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...

With her sister Ruth whispering dark words of revenge, Joy sets about making sure that her father pays dearly for his past.

But the best laid plans never unfold quite the way you expect them to...

Set 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.

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'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

'Intense, intricate, emotionally devastating.