Lyn Yeowart for Collins Ballarat

We are delighted to be hosting Lyn Yeowart - award winning author of The Silent Listener - as she celebrates the launch of her new book 'The Hollow Girl'. Lyn will be in conversation with Renee Price

ABOUT THE HOLLOW GIRL

Alternating between 1961 and 1973, The Hollow Girl is the stunning new literary suspense novel from the award-winning author of The Silent Listener.

HARROWFORD HALLA safe haven for lost girls? Or a breeding ground for revenge?

It’s 1973 and Detective Sergeant Eleanor Smith is finally assigned her first homicide case. A woman’s body has been discovered at Harrowford Hall, a home for unmarried mothers deep in the Victorian countryside.

Led by the formidable Mrs Montague, Harrowford has for decades sold itself as a refuge for ‘girls in crisis’ - like fourteen-year-old Jane McEvoy, who has no idea of how she got pregnant. And Marilyn Pollard, a scared, angry teenager desperate to escape.

But when Detective Smith arrives at the once-grand gothic mansion, she finds it all but deserted. What’s more, the home’s overgrown graveyard suggests the apparent poisoning of Nurse Chapman is not Harrowford’s first suspicious death . . .

ABOUT LYN

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.