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Lyn Yeowart
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Lyn Yeowart is a consulting writer and editor who lives on the traditional lands of the Kulin Nation. Her debut novel, The Silent Listener, won the 2022 Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction, was a finalist in the UK People’s Book Prize, and was shortlisted for three other national awards in Australia. The Hollow Girl, her second novel, will publish in September 2025.

Books by Lyn Yeowart

The Silent Listener

'A wickedly dark debut - haunting and unputdownable.' Christian White, author of The Nowhere Child

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The Hollow Girl

Set in a once grand gothic mansion steeped in long-buried secrets, The Hollow Girl is the stunning new literary suspense novel from the award-winning author of The Silent Listener.

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Lyn Yeowart Q&A

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