The Silent Companions: The perfect spooky tale to curl up with this autumn

Author:   Laura Purcell
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:  

9781408888032


Pages:   384
Publication Date:   05 April 2018
Format:   Paperback
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The Silent Companions: The perfect spooky tale to curl up with this autumn


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Inspired by the work of Shirley Jackson and Susan Hill and set in a crumbling country mansion, The Silent Companions is an unsettling gothic ghost story to send a shiver down the spine... 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...

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Author:   Laura Purcell
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Raven Books
Weight:   0.273kg
ISBN:  

9781408888032


ISBN 10:   1408888033
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   05 April 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

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A deliciously creepy ghost story * Sunday Express * A creepy, unsettling tale that I had to finish reading in broad daylight * Stylist, 'Must-Read Books' * Really tense and unnerving, it still won't let me go * Woman & Home * 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 * A superbly atmospheric, tense novel full of creeping dread. I could only read it during daylight hours! * Red * A brilliant, unsettling debut. Don't read just before bedtime! * Prima * 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 * 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, author of The Comet Seekers * This incredibly creepy ghost story plays out in the very best tradition against a backdrop of a crumbling house ... Superb * Saga * Things begin to go bump in broad daylight as well as the night. Compulsively creepy * Sunday Mirror * 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 * You may want to leave the light on once you put down this intensely spooky Gothic chiller ... Irresistibly creepy * The People *


Layering on the dark and creepy, this intriguingly plotted novel is the full-blown Gothic, maintaining throughout an unsettling claustrophobic atmosphere mixed with some unusual historical detail * Daily Mail * A deliciously creepy ghost story * Sunday Express * A creepy, unsettling tale that I had to finish reading in broad daylight * Stylist, 'Must-Read Books' * Really tense and unnerving, it still won't let me go * Woman & Home * 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 * A superbly atmospheric, tense novel full of creeping dread. I could only read it during daylight hours! * Red * A brilliant, unsettling debut. Don't read just before bedtime! * Prima * 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 * 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, author of The Comet Seekers * This incredibly creepy ghost story plays out in the very best tradition against a backdrop of a crumbling house ... Superb * Saga * Things begin to go bump in broad daylight as well as the night. Compulsively creepy * Sunday Mirror * Menacing and unsettling * Psychologies * 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 * You may want to leave the light on once you put down this intensely spooky Gothic chiller ... Irresistibly creepy * The People *


Author Information

Laura Purcell is a former bookseller, she lives in Colchester with her husband and pet guinea pigs. Her second novel for Bloomsbury, gothic chiller The Corset, will be published in 2018. laurapurcell.com @spookypurcell

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