In order to get more accurate results, our search has the following Google-Type search functionality:
If you use '+' in front of a word, then that word will be present in the search results.
ex: Harry +Potter will return results with the word 'Potter'.
If you use '-' in front of a word, then that word will be absent in the search results.
ex: Harry -Potter will return results without the word 'Potter'.
If you use 'AND' between two words, then both of those words will be present in the search results.
ex: Harry AND Potter will return results with both 'Harry' and 'Potter'.
If you use 'OR' between two words, then bth of those words may or may not be present in the search results.
ex: Harry OR Potter will return results with just 'Harry', results with just 'Potter' and results with both 'Harry' and 'Potter'.
If you use 'NOT' before a word, then that word will be absent in the search results.
ex: Harry NOT Potter will return results without the word 'Potter'.
Placing '""' around words will perform a phrase search. The search results will contain those words in that order.
ex: "Harry Potter" will return any results with 'Harry Potter' in them, but not 'Potter Harry'.
Using '*' in a word will perform a wildcard search. The '*' signifies any number of characters. Searches can not start with a wildcard.
ex: Pot*er will return results with words starting with 'Pot' and ending in 'er'. In this case, 'Potter' will be a match.
'A wickedly dark debut - haunting and unputdownable.' Christian White, author of The Nowhere Child
'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. This is proper Australian gothica.' Liam Pieper, author of Sweetness and Light
'Totally addictive.' Books+Publishing
'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
'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
'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