Reviews

A deftly wrought suspense from a remarkable new literary talent. I was hooked from the first page…a book that should be atop everyone’s reading list…Yeowart’s prose is spectacular, and the characters are so richly imagined. This is a novel about inherited violence and redemption packaged as a cracking psychological thriller.
— JP Pomare, author of Call Me Evie and In The Clearing

The Silent Listener is a cracking thriller with heart. It intrigues, it twists and turns, it deftly combines the muddy domestic details of life on a farm with a black, Gothic sensibility of lies and violence and the heartbreaking fantasy world of a young child. At first, I paused often to savour the language and mood, but I had to race through the last 100 pages, consumed with curiosity, hope and horror.
— Jane Sullivan, literary columnist, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald

A heartbreaking, terrifying and stunningly accomplished novel that had me holding my breath. Yeowart instantly pulled me into the life of a rural Victorian family dominated by an angry, insecure despot from its unnerving beginnings to its shocking end. The book is a compassionate and wise exploration of trauma and a paean to the beauty of language, with a terrible secret at its core. The story is devastating but I couldn’t look away. 
— Kirsten Alexander, author of Half Moon Lake and Riptides