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ISBN: 9781408888117

Content: " Winner of the WHSmith 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 8211 a Silent Companion 8211 that bears a striking resemblance to Elsie herself..."

Content: Biographisches: "Laura Purcell is a former bookseller living in Colchester, Essex with her husband and pet guinea pigs. She is the author of six novels, among them Gothic novel The Silent Companions , which was a Radio 2 Book Club pick, was selected for the Zoe Ball ITV Book Club and was the winner of the Thumping Good Read Award. Her short story 'The Chillingham Chair' was included in The Haunting Season anthology, which was an instant Sunday Times Bestseller. Recently, she wrote Roanoake Falls, a dramatic podcast for Realm, working with John Carpenter and Sandy King Carpenter.laurapurcell.com @spookypurcell" Rezension(2): "Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black:Ghost stories are for Christmas. Some recent ones haven't quite got it right but t his is terrific . Perfect setting, great build-up, chilling. What more could you want ? " Rezension(3): "Sunday Express:A deliciously creepy ghost story " Rezension(4): "Emerald Street:Laura Purcell has nailed it with a story that conjures up Susan Hill's The Woman In Black , Henry James's The Turn Of The Screw and a little bit of Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier" Rezension(5): "Stylist, 'Must-Read Books':A creepy, unsettling tale that I had to finish reading in broad daylight " Rezension(6): "Woman & Home:Really tense and unnerving , it still won't let me go" Rezension(7): "Times Literary Supplement: A true page-turner.. .neatly crafted and compelling...with a spine-tingling revelation every few pages " Rezension(8): "Sophia Tobin, author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Silversmith's Wife and The Widow's Confession: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 " Rezension(9): "Anna Mazzola, author of The Unseeing: Not since The Little Stranger has a book so entranced and haunted me . Compelling, bewitching and beautifully written. Read it if you dare " Rezension(10): "Lyndsay Faye, author of The Gods of Gotham: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 8211" Rezension(11): "Helen Sedgwick, author of The Comet Seekers: Frighteningly atmospheric , genuinely haunting and psychologically astute, the horror of The Silent Companions lingers like truth in the darkest corners of the human mind" Rezension(12): "Sunday Mirror:Things begin to go bump in broad daylight as well as the night. Compulsively creepy " Rezension(13): "Psychologies: Menacing and unsettling" Rezension(14): "Essie Fox, author of The Last Days of Leda Grey: Compelling and claustrophobic. The pages all but turn by themselves " Rezension(15): "Natasha Pulley, author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street: Magnificently creepy ... I really wished it were longer" Rezension(16): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: January 8, 2018 Purcell’s debut is an atmospheric, eerie Victorian gothic novel centered around a decaying English country estate. Elsie has married into the Bainbridge family, which “had a nasty habit of losing their heirs.” Her own family history is similarly grim, her father having died gruesomely in an accident at the family’s matchstick factory. The two households, both alike in tragedy, unite, and the result is predictably disastrous. Elsie’s new husband dies suddenly, leaving her the sole mistress of his ancestral estate, the Bridge, with its distrustful servants and collection of lifelike wooden props, “not a statue or a painting but somewhere in between.” These figures multiply, assuming the likenesses of people from the house’s and Elsie’s history alike. Are they manifestations of Elsie’s subconscious fears, or malevolent forces of evil? Purcell skillfully maintains the ambiguity as she splinters the story into three timelines: Elsie’s stay at the estate over the winter of 1865,Elsie in a psychiatric hospital shortly thereafter, rendered mute and amnesiac after being accused of murder and arson,and a 17th-century account (found in an old diary) that sheds light on the origin of the evil lurking within the estate. Purcell’s novel is more formulaic than, say, Sarah Waters’s The Little Stranger , but its combustible tale of a 19th-century woman tormented by an English country house’s creepy curios does produce sparks."

Language: English

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