Kate Veitch's spellbinding first novel — published in Australia as Listen and in the US as Without a Backward Glance — draws us deep into the intensely private world of contemporary family life and brilliantly illuminates the joys, sorrows and sustaining comfort that we find there.
U.S & Canada: Plume, an imprint of Penguin USA, will be publishing Listen in the US and Canada at the end of June 2008 under the title Without a Backward Glance Australia & New Zealand

'Similar to Anne Tyler in her wry affection for her characters and to Anita Shreve in her aptitude for crafting compulsively readable plotlines, first-novelist Kate Veitch delivers a remarkably assured debut that is sure to find a ready audience.' – Booklist

'A compelling drama with a lot of heart and humanity, impossible to put down' – Australian Women's Weekly