Listeners

Listeners Synopsis

NATIONAL BESTSELLERSCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE FINALISTA propulsive literary page-turner about a family torn apart by a mothers obsession with a sound that no one else can hearOne night, while lying in bed next to her husband, Claire Devon suddenly hears a low hum. This innocuous sound, which no one else in the house can hear, has no obvious source or medical cause, but it begins to upset the balance of Claires life. When she discovers that one of her students can also hearthehum,thetwo strike up an unlikely and intimate friendship.Finding themselves increasingly isolated from their families and colleagues, they fall in witha disparate group of people who also perceivethesound. What starts out as a kind of neighbourhood self-help group gradually transforms into something much more extreme, with far-reaching, devastating consequences.The Listenersis an electrifying novel that treads the thresholds offaith, conspiracy and mania. Compelling and exhilarating, it forces us to consider how strongly we hold on to what we perceive, and the way different views can tear a family apart.

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