Eavesdroppers, The
La description
When social attitudes researcher Bill Harcourt puts an advertisement in the newspaper for “listeners” to work on an unconventional project, he anticipates that his team of eavesdroppers will discover previously untapped insights into public opinion. But as five eager listeners begin eavesdropping in the cafés, public toilets, tube trains, and launderettes of London, discreetly noting the details of unguarded conversations, Bill starts to notice subtle changes in their behaviour… To learn more about this publisher, click here: http://bit. ly/2lTqm87
Reviews
Praise for The Eavesdroppers
"The third novel from Rosie Chard is a potent but entertaining commentary on our modern surveillance society."
~ Quill & Quire
"A creepy ambush of a novel, unsettling and profound in its ideas and fears. One feels the weight of history and of the future; one hears a warning."
~ Michelle Butler Hallett, author of This Marlowe
"At an address somewhere between Bletchley Park and Franz Kafka's house, Rosie Chard locates a curious and compelling tale about a group of life's outsiders who find meaning - and much worse - when they're tasked with listening in. Part spy-thriller in miniature, part fable for our disconcerting times, The Eavesdroppers is funny and haunting and achingly human."
~ Ian Weir, author of Will Starling and The Death and Life of Strother Purcell