But pregnant and widowed just weeks after their wedding, with her new servants resentful and the local villagers actively hostile, Elsie has only her late husband’s awkward cousin for company. When Elsie married handsome young heir Rupert Bainbridge, she believed she was destined for a life of luxury. Laura Purcell's THE SHAPE OF DARKNESS is now out from Penguin! “ extraordinary, memorable and truly haunting book.” - Jojo Moyes, #1 New York Times bestselling author 'You may want to leave the light on once you put down this intensely spooky Gothic chiller. 'Things begin to go bump in broad daylight as well as the night. 'This incredibly creepy ghost story plays out in the very best tradition against a backdrop of a crumbling house. I could only read it during daylight hours!' - Red 'A superbly atmospheric, tense novel full of creeping dread. It's what crumpets and dismal afternoons were made for' - Glamour 'Irresistibly creepy, this romps along, Purcell turning her screws with skill. 'A true page-turner.neatly crafted and compelling.with a spine-tingling revelation every few pages' - Times Literary Supplement 'Really tense and unnerving, it still won't let me go' - Woman & Home Intriguing, nuanced and genuinely eerie' - Guardian 'A creepy, unsettling tale that I had to finish reading in broad daylight' - Stylist 'A deliciously creepy ghost story' - Sunday Express Perfect setting, great build-up, chilling. Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC ISBN: 9781408888032 Number of pages: 384 Weight: 273 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm MEDIA REVIEWS '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 Or so she thinks.įor 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. With her new servants resentful and the local villagers actively hostile, Elsie only has her husband's awkward cousin for company. Newly married, newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country estate, The Bridge. How could she relive it? How could she bring herself to do it to them, all over again? She peered into the blank page, trying to see, somewhere in its vast expanse of nothing, that other woman from long ago. In the gloom she saw a void of white, waiting for her words.
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.
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