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.

LATEST NEWS: One of American Library Journal's Best Books of 2008!
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

'Don't miss this impressive Australian import. Days after finishing this book, the McDonald family's story will linger in your mind.'
– Chicago Sun-Times

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