The Listeners
by Monica Dickens
The engrossing, heart-warming story of what happens when people at the end of their tether contact the Samaritans... In this deeply felt, absorbingly told novel, Monica Dickens vividly portrays the Samaritans themselves as well as three would-be suicides - Paul the ex-schoolmaster whose career has been ruined by an alcoholic wife; Victoria, half-engaged to a peer's conventional son; and young Sarah who shimmers with apparent youth and human compassion. This is a story in Monica Dickens' inimitable style- salted with humour, and inspired with love.