The Silent Listener by Lyn Yeowart
About Lyn Yeowart
Lyn Yeowart is a professional writer and editor with more than 25 years of experience in writing and editing everything from captions for artworks to speeches for executives. Her debut novel, The Silent Listener, is loosely based on events from her childhood growing up in rural Victoria. She is now happily ensconced in Melbourne, where there is very little mud, but lots of books. For further information, visit:
A Quote from Lyn Yeowart
“I am utterly delighted that The Silent Listener has been long listed for the ARA Historical Novel Prize! The HNSA does brilliant work promoting historical fiction and its various sub-genres, including their support of novelists with this prize and the new CYA Historical Novel Prize. It’s such a terrific way of generating interest in both history and novels, and I am immensely grateful to the judges, HNSA, and ARA. Congratulations to all of the long listed novelists in both categories – I now have a whole new TBR pile!”
About The Silent Listener
In the cold, wet summer of 1960, 11-year-old Joy Henderson lives in constant fear of her father. She tries to make him happy but, as he keeps reminding her, she is nothing but a filthy sinner destined for Hell. Yet, decades later, she returns to the family’s farm to nurse him on his death bed. To her surprise, her ‘perfect’ sister Ruth is also there, whispering dark words, urging revenge. Then the day after their father finally confesses to a despicable crime, Joy finds him dead – with a belt pulled tight around his neck. For Senior Constable Alex Shepherd, investigating George’s murder revives memories of an unsolved case still haunting him since that strange summer of 1960: the disappearance of nine-year-old Wendy Boscombe. As seemingly impossible facts surface about the Hendersons – from the past and the present – Shepherd suspects that Joy is pulling him into an intricate web of lies and that Wendy’s disappearance is the key to the bizarre truth.
