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LAURA PURCELL'S THRILLING NEW NOVEL THE WHISPERING MUSE IS OUT NOW
Winner of the W H Smith Thumping Good Read Award
As featured on the Radio 2 Book Club and the Zoe Ball ITV Book Club
'[An] extraordinary, memorable and truly haunting book' Jojo Moyes
'[It] shone, for originality for the sheer quality of the writing, the characters and some masterly chills' Peter James
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. For 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...
Genre: Horror
Winner of the W H Smith Thumping Good Read Award
As featured on the Radio 2 Book Club and the Zoe Ball ITV Book Club
'[An] extraordinary, memorable and truly haunting book' Jojo Moyes
'[It] shone, for originality for the sheer quality of the writing, the characters and some masterly chills' Peter James
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. For 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...
Genre: Horror
Praise for this book
"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
"Compelling and claustrophobic. The pages all but turn by themselves." - Essie Fox
"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
"Magnificently creepy . I really wished it were longer." - Natasha Pulley
"Frighteningly atmospheric, genuinely haunting and psychologically astute, the horror of The Silent Companions lingers like truth in the darkest corners of the human mind." - Helen Sedgwick
"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
"Compelling and claustrophobic. The pages all but turn by themselves." - Essie Fox
"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
"Magnificently creepy . I really wished it were longer." - Natasha Pulley
"Frighteningly atmospheric, genuinely haunting and psychologically astute, the horror of The Silent Companions lingers like truth in the darkest corners of the human mind." - Helen Sedgwick
"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
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