The Silent Listener
13 hrs. 48 min.
Description
Two sisters. A dying father. And a horrifying secret—one between three…
A cold, damp summer of 1960. The Australian continent’s backcountry. Eleven-year-old Joy Henderson lives in constant fear of her father. She tries in every way to please him, to avoid the next round of abuse. But her father is always unyielding: his daughter is a nasty sinner, doomed to Hell…
Many years later, thirty-year-old Joy returns to the family home to care for her gravely ill tormentor. And, to her own surprise, she meets her “perfect” sister Ruth there. Ruth whispers poisonous words into her ear, urging her to take revenge. The next day, Joy discovers her father dead—his neck encircled by a belt. The very belt he once used to beat his children…
This extraordinarily powerful and penetrating novel carries the reader across the 1940s, the 1960s, and the 1980s. An unforgettable literary canvas depicting grim Australian backcountry life—its sometimes brutal inhabitants—and the quiet depths of the human mind…
A cold, damp summer of 1960. The Australian continent’s backcountry. Eleven-year-old Joy Henderson lives in constant fear of her father. She tries in every way to please him, to avoid the next round of abuse. But her father is always unyielding: his daughter is a nasty sinner, doomed to Hell…
Many years later, thirty-year-old Joy returns to the family home to care for her gravely ill tormentor. And, to her own surprise, she meets her “perfect” sister Ruth there. Ruth whispers poisonous words into her ear, urging her to take revenge. The next day, Joy discovers her father dead—his neck encircled by a belt. The very belt he once used to beat his children…
This extraordinarily powerful and penetrating novel carries the reader across the 1940s, the 1960s, and the 1980s. An unforgettable literary canvas depicting grim Australian backcountry life—its sometimes brutal inhabitants—and the quiet depths of the human mind…
