Description
| Product ID: | 9781408888032 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Silent Companions |
| Subtitle: | The perfect spooky tale to curl up with this summer |
| Authors: | Author: Laura Purcell |
| Page Count: | 384 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Crime and mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction, Horror and supernatural fiction, Crime & mystery, Thriller / suspense, Horror & ghost stories |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating LAURA PURCELL'S THRILLING NEW NOVEL THE WHISPERING MUSE IS OUT NOW Winner of the W H Smith Thumping Good Read AwardAs featured on the Radio 2 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 JamesSome 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... LAURA PURCELL''S THRILLING NEW NOVEL THE WHISPERING MUSE IS OUT NOW Winner of the W H Smith Thumping Good Read AwardAs featured on the Radio 2 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 JamesSome 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... |
| Imprint Name: | Raven Books |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-04-05 |