num_pages: 183
description: Listening in the Dusk (1990), Celia Fremlin's thirteenth novel, concerns Alice Saunders, a woman striking out on her own following a traumatic marital breakup. But when she rents a drafty attic room in a ramshackle London boarding house she meets the mysterious Mary - a young woman clearly terrified of something, or someone.
language: English
title: Listening in the Dusk
titlecomplete: Listening in the Dusk
characters: Brian, Mary, Cyril, Alice Saunders
genres: Fiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 42
places: London, England
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: CWA Silver Dagger
publisher: Doubleday