Scotiabank Giller Finalist: The Listeners
Scotiabank Giller Finalist: The Listeners
Joe Mitchell
, sarah campbell
, Sebastian Schulman
, tom stormonth
, Jude Castillo
, Barry Kazimer
, Laurie Burns
, Catherine Westerberg
, Linda Leitch
, Hilary Smith
, Susan Baues
, Jennifer Chambers
, Melissa Kohlman
, Eric Skalij
, Marilyn Stanley
, cassandra schiemann
, Jocelyn Heisel
, Cindy Bodini
, Annick MacAskill
, Debra Fisher
, Shayla Leung
, Diane McPherson
, Elaine Baptie
, Fatin Ay
, Tina May
, Jen Batler
, Ellen Helleur
, Jenna Lyn Albert
, Kim Cappellina
, Samantha Fitzpatrick
, Sandra Furlotte
, Esther VanGorder
, Bev Bellrose
, Nicole Haldoupis
, Sandra Dufoe
, Connie Braun
, Kim Reynolds
, joy mills
, Sandy Krausnick
, Loni C.
, Richard Scarsbrook
, Sara Conway
, Char Krausnick
, Alex Henderson
, Liz Bugg
, Jaclyn Law
, Janet Hepburn
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, jane luce
, Patricia Johnson
, Diana Richardson
, Catherine Kelly-Brown
, John Bell
, C. Ray
, Margaret Jones
, Judy Richardson
, Carol Parchewsky
, Elizabeth Obermeyer
, Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt
, Katherine Krige
, Vickie Short
, Heather O'Connor
, Nancy Steinhausen
, Caleb Nault
, Kat Sommer-Derksen
, Patricia McKeown
, Lauren Perruzza
, P. Thompson
, Natasa Ilic
, Derek Davidson
, Peter Halasz
, Shonna Froebel
, Gina Bergman
, Emily Barrette
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Margaret Lindo
, Lynn Hallson
, Christopher Evans
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Lucian Childs
, Paula Adam
, Alanna King
, Sheila Cornelisse
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Charles Leblanc
, Madison Maguire
, Prabh Toor
, Debbie Rodgers
, Jesse Kancir
, Holly Elisabeth
, Paula Ritchie
, Randi Ann Doll
, Sharlene Ketelaar
, Huguette Lemieux
, Benita Hartwell
, Cindy Taylor
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Deb Philippon
, Natalie Mudri
, Rosa Cross
, Lynn Bechtel
, Ellen Clarke
, Lise Gaston
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Kathleen Flaherty
, Robert Hykawy
, Chris Lantz
, Leila Grobel
, diana kirkwood
, Joann Horgan
, Vanessa S
, Kevin Smith
, Kate Kostandoff
, India Rounds
, Emily Zb
, Andrea Pole
, Jessica Murray
, Melissa Poremba
, Heather Norris
, Deanna Radford
, Caley Clements
, Frances Peck
, Laura Peters
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Caira Clark
, Jay Rawding
, Stef Novakowski
, Patricia Sampson
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Julie Kaniak
, Gwynn Scheltema
, Lilly Ed
, maria blanco
, Rebecca Ballarin
, Sabrina Phan
, Jacquie Harnett
, Liz Woloski
, Nancy Daoust
, Lisa Mallia
, LJ Law
, Mary Lester
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Meradith Anderson
, Chantal Comeau
, Sandra McGugan
, Diana Daly
, Hilary Squires
, Sharon Syrette
, Jody Spencer
, Danielle DOrnellas
, Suzanne Ciprian
, Matthew Taylor
, Olivia Pellegrino
, Vicky Ouimet
, Catherine Young
, Susan Terendy
, Val Ross
, Lorraine Lambie
, Wanda Brine
, Lauren Seal
, Paris Semansky
, Shelley Gibbs
, Natalie McCallum
, Judith Pearson
, Hailey Slaviero
, Greenberg Bobbi
, E. Ainslie
, Rick Gottinger
, Cherryl Koylass
, Wanda Bergman
, Sandra Perry
, Annika Fotheringham
, Janet Miller
, Janice Hutchinson
, Noelle Walsh
, Cathy White
, Yolande Thivierge
, Louise Walsh
, Abbie Zarate
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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.
