Careful, He Might Hear You (novel)


Careful, He Might Hear You is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Sumner Locke Elliott. It was published in 1963.
The 1983 film Careful, He Might Hear You was based on the novel.

Synopsis

Careful, He Might Hear You is based on the author's childhood. The secure world of an orphan living with his working-class aunt and uncle is changed forever with the arrival of another aunt from London who wishes to raise him as her child.

Adaptions

Along with the 1983 film, a Musical production was performed in Canberra, Australia in 1999 by Supa Productions. The stage production was developed by David Sale and Ron Creager and starred Toni Lamond, Jayden Cooke and Jordan Prosser and Bronwyn Sullivan.