Careful, He Might Hear You is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Sumner Locke Elliott.

And she continued: "As a portrait of a big, complicated family of women — their tensions, petty squabbles, foibles, flaws and strengths — it is superb.

The individual characters of all PS’s aunts — the posh one, the sensible one, the fun one, the religious one — are beautifully drawn and wonderfully contrasted with his own dead mother, the woman with an angelic reputation who had a devilish streak few people knew about...The dialogue is witty, peppered with the vernacular of the time, and Sydney, in the heat, is captured so vividly it feels as if it’s a character in its own right.

The film was directed by Carl Schultz, from a screenplay by Michael Jenkins, and featured Wendy Hughes, Robyn Nevin and Nicholas Gledhill.

The stage production was developed by David Sale (Book and Lyrics) and Ron Creager (music) and starred Toni Lamond (as Lila Baines), Jayden Cooke and Jordan Prosser (as PS) and Bronwyn Sullivan (as Vanessa Scott).