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The Laura Purcell Collection
The Silent Companions, The Corset and Bone China
2020
First Published
4.33
Average Rating
1140
Number of Pages

A collection of three deliciously dark, atmospheric read with the lights on. The Silent winner of the WHS Thumping Good Read award '[An] extraordinary, memorable and truly haunting book' Jojo Moyes Some doors are locked for a reason... Newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's remote country estate only to discover a mysterious locked door. The Corset 'The Corset is a contender for my Book of the Year. Beautifully written, intricately plotted, a masterpiece' Sarah Hilary Is prisoner Ruth Butterham mad or a murderer? Victim or villain? Bone China 'Deliciously sinister' Heat A scientist attempts a revolutionary experiment in the caves under a Cornish manor house. Forty years later, the young daughter of the house is now an almost mute invalid, haunted by what she saw.

Avg Rating
4.33
Number of Ratings
21
5 STARS
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4 STARS
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3 STARS
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2 STARS
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Author

Laura Purcell
Laura Purcell
Author · 14 books

Laura Purcell is a former bookseller and lives in Colchester with her husband and pet guinea pigs. Her first novel for Raven Books THE SILENT COMPANIONS won the WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award 2018 and featured in both the Zoe Ball and Radio 2 Book Clubs. Other Gothic novels include THE CORSET (THE POISON THREAD in USA), BONE CHINA and THE SHAPE OF DARKNESS (2020) Laura’s historical fiction about the Hanoverian monarchs, QUEEN OF BEDLAM and MISTRESS OF THE COURT, was published by Myrmidon.

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