Some doors are locked for a reason...
Perfect for lovers of Susan Hill, Shirley Jackson and Bridget
Collins
Laura Purcell is a former bookseller, she lives in Colchester
with her husband and pet guinea pigs. Her second novel for
Bloomsbury, gothic chiller The Corset, was published in 2018.
laurapurcell.com
@spookypurcell
Ghost stories are for Christmas. Some recent ones haven't quite got
it right but this is terrific. Perfect setting, great build-up,
chilling. What more could you want ?
*Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black*
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*
A deliciously creepy ghost story
*Sunday Express*
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
*Emerald Street*
A perfect read for a winter night … Intriguing, nuanced and
genuinely eerie
*Guardian*
A creepy, unsettling tale that I had to finish reading in broad
daylight
*Stylist, 'Must-Read Books'*
A sinister slice of Victorian gothic... creepy and page-turning
*The Times*
Really tense and unnerving, it still won't let me go
*Woman & Home*
A true page-turner...neatly crafted and compelling...with a
spine-tingling revelation every few pages
*Times Literary Supplement*
Irresistibly creepy, this romps along, Purcell turning her screws
with skill. It's what crumpets and dismal afternoons were made
for
*Glamour*
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
*Sophia Tobin, author of the Sunday Times bestseller The
Silversmith’s Wife and The Widow’s Confession*
Not since The Little Stranger has a book so entranced and haunted
me. Compelling, bewitching and beautifully written. Read it if you
dare
*Anna Mazzola, author of The Unseeing*
A superbly atmospheric, tense novel full of creeping dread. I could
only read it during daylight hours!
*Red*
A brilliant, unsettling debut. Don’t read just before bedtime!
*Prima*
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 – not only a
compulsively readable ghost story, but a skillful, loving ode to
the entire genre
*Lyndsay Faye, author of The Gods of Gotham*
Frighteningly atmospheric, genuinely haunting and psychologically
astute, the horror of The Silent Companions lingers like truth in
the darkest corners of the human mind
*Helen Sedgwick, author of The Comet Seekers*
This incredibly creepy ghost story plays out in the very best
tradition against a backdrop of a crumbling house … Superb
*Saga*
Things begin to go bump in broad daylight as well as the night.
Compulsively creepy
*Sunday Mirror*
Menacing and unsettling
*Psychologies*
Compelling and claustrophobic. The pages all but turn by
themselves
*Essie Fox, author of The Last Days of Leda Grey*
Magnificently creepy … I really wished it were longer
*Natasha Pulley, author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street*
You may want to leave the light on once you put down this intensely
spooky Gothic chiller ... Irresistibly
creepy
*The People*
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