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The Listeners

A NovelBy Jordan TannahillNarrated by Deborah Pearson
Length8h 27m

About this audiobook

NATIONAL BESTSELLER SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE FINALIST A propulsive literary page-turner about a family torn apart by a mother’s obsession with a sound that no one else can hear One 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 Claire’s life. When she discovers that one of her students can also hear the hum, the two strike up an unlikely and intimate friendship. Finding themselves increasingly isolated from their families and colleagues, they fall in with a disparate group of people who also perceive the sound. What starts out as a kind of neighbourhood self-help group gradually transforms into something much more extreme, with far-reaching, devastating consequences.  The Listeners is an electrifying novel that treads the thresholds of faith, 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.

Audiobook details

Rating★★★★ 3.5 (4.8K)
Includes Goodreads, StoryGraph, Amazon, LibraryThing
GenreGeneral Fiction, Fantasy
Length8 hrs 27 mins
Narrated byDeborah Pearson
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateAug 17, 2021
LanguageEnglish

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