Jordan Tannahill is a Canadian living in London and is already an internationally acclaimed playwright. Two of his plays have won a Governor General's Literary Award, Canada's highest state honour for literature. He has written one previous novel, LIMINAL which was published in Canada by House of Anansi and was named one of the best Canadian novels of 2018 by CBC Books. Inspired by real-life occurrences and by his own upbringing in a Nichiren Buddhist household THE LISTENERS will be Tannahill's debut novel in the UK and America.
Praise for The Listeners: ‘Fantastic on conspiracy theories, cults,
faith and mania and stuffed full of engaging characters’ Daily Mail
‘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 ‘I loved this book. Tannahill is
such a skilled prose stylist that this book manages to be both a
page-turning unravelling of a family and a manic, fully-alive
monologue of a woman going over the edge’ Zoe Whittall, author of
The Spectacular ‘One of those rare novels that entered my soul,
rearranged my brain cells and then my world view. Tannahill writes
with the
heat and wisdom of a God’ Claudia Dey, author of Heartbreaker and
Stunt ‘Breathtakingly timely. It’s an enigmatic story of
21st-century melancholia motored by sentences at once propulsive
and erudite (that beautiful synthesis). Everyone’s going to be
talking about this book’ Billy-Ray Belcourt, author of A History of
My Brief Body ‘Tannahill has written an engaging, shocking and
hilarious story about how a woman's search for deeper meaning leads
to an entire town being in crisis. It is a testament to the
revulsion and horror an ordinary person can inspire when they
decide to simply peek outside of the box’ Heather O’Neill, author
of The Lonely Hearts Hotel ‘A breathtakingly, breathholdingly good
novel from one of the most original writers in this country.
Tannahill serves up enormous ideas in delicious slices. What’s
truth? Who do we trust? Is skepticism better than belief? He has a
playwright’s ear and a director’s eye. I didn’t so much read the
novel as watch it unfold’ Ian Williams, author of Reproduction
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