The Listeners

By: Jordan Tannahill

Narrated by: Deborah Pearson

Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins

Publisher's summary

A masterful speculative novel exploring the fine lines between faith, conspiracy and mania in contemporary America.

While lying in bed next to her husband one night, Claire Devon hears a low hum that he cannot. And, it seems, no one else can either. This innocuous noise begins causing Claire headaches, nosebleeds and insomnia, gradually upsetting the balance of her life, though no obvious source or medical cause can be found. When she discovers that a student of hers 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 neighbours who also perceive the sound. What starts as a neighbourhood self-help group gradually transforms into something far more extreme and with far-reaching, devastating consequences.

The Listeners is an exhilarating and erotic novel exploring the seduction of the wild and unknowable, the human search for the transcendent, the rise of conspiracy culture in the West and the desire for community and connection in our increasingly polarised times.

©2021 Jordan Tannahill (P)2021 Fourth Estate

Critic reviews

"The Listeners starts as a little hum in your ear and ends up blowing the top off your head. A deeply plausible, funny, horrifying story of a journey right off the rails." (Emma Donoghue, author of The Pull of the Stars)

"Fans of The Power will love this addictive novel" (Stylist)