A wickedly dark debut - haunting and unputdownable.' Christian White, author of The Nowhere Child<br/><br/>'The Silent Listener is simply unforgettable.' Sydney Morning Herald<br/><br/>'A tale of suspense and revenge, beautifully written.' The Age<br/><br/>'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<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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...<br/><br/>With her sister Ruth whispering dark words of revenge, Joy sets about making sure that her father pays dearly for his past.<br/><br/>But the best laid plans never unfold quite the way you expect them to…<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>••••<br/><br/><br/>'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<br/><br/>'Intense, intricate, emotionally devastating. This is proper Australian gothica.' Liam Pieper, author of Sweetness and Light<br/><br/>'Totally addictive.' Books+Publishing<br/><br/>'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<br/><br/>'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<br/><br/>'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<br/><br/>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