The Silent Companions
by Laura Purcell
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Pub Date Oct 05 2017 | Archive Date Oct 03 2019
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (UK & ANZ) | Raven Books
Description
As featured on the Radio 2 Book Club and the Zoe Ball ITV Book Club. Some doors are locked for a reason...
Newly married, newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband’s crumbling country estate, The Bridge.
With her new servants resentful and the local villagers actively hostile, Elsie only has her husband’s awkward cousin for company. Or so she thinks. But inside her new home lies a locked room, and beyond that door lies a two-hundred-year-old diary and a deeply unsettling painted wooden figure – a Silent Companion – that bears a striking resemblance to Elsie herself...
Advance Praise
'Writing in the tradition of country house ghost stories, Laura Purcell has created a book that is unnerving and compelling in equal measure. The Silent Companions is an atmospheric gothic tale which chills the blood' - Sophia Tobin, author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Silversmith’s Wife and The Widow’s Confession
'Not since The Little Stranger has a book so entranced and haunted me. Compelling, bewitching and beautifully written. Read it if you dare' - Anna Mazzola, author of The Unseeing
'If The Silent Companions lands on your night table, don't plan on leaving your bed anytime soon. Immersive, meticulous, and reminiscent of the masters of gothic fiction – not only a compulsively readable ghost story, but a skillful, loving ode to the entire genre' - Lyndsay Faye, author of The Gods of Gotham
'Compelling and claustrophobic. The pages all but turn by themselves' - Essie Fox, author of The Last Days of Leda Grey
'Magnificently creepy … I really wished it were longer' - Natasha Pulley, author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781408888094 |
| PRICE | £12.99 (GBP) |
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