Bøger af Laura Purcell

LAURA PURCELL'S THRILLING NEW NOVEL THE WHISPERING MUSE IS AVAILABLE TO PREORDER 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...

';[An] extraordinary, memorable and truly haunting book.'Jojo Moyes, #1 New York Times bestselling authorLaura Purcell'sThe Poison Threadis now out from Penguin!Some doors are locked for a reason. When Elsie married handsome young heir Rupert Bainbridge, she believed she was destined for a life of luxury. 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. Or so she thinks. Inside her new home lies a locked door, beyond which is a painted wooden figurea silent companionthat bears a striking resemblance to Elsie herself. The residents of the estate are terrified of the figure, but Elsie tries to shrug this off as simple superstitionthat is, until she notices the figure's eyes following her.A Victorian ghost story that evokes a most unsettling kind of fear, The Silent Companionsis a tale that creeps its way through the consciousness in ways you least expectmuch like the companions themselves.

The second in Laura Purcell's captivating and acclaimed series of novels chronicling the lives and loves of the consorts and mistresses of Britain's rash and reckless Hanoverian kings.