Bone China: A gripping and atmospheric gothic thriller

ISBN-13: 9781526602503 / Angielski

Laura Purcell

Opis

A Daphne Du Maurier-esque chiller set on the mysterious Cornish coast from the author of The Silent Companions and The CorsetMorvoren House on the Cornish coast plays host to two young women who - forty years apart - are both faced with sinister tales of fairy possession: in a house full of superstitious staff, who can be trusted?

'Du Maurier-tastic' GUARDIAN'Deliciously sinister' HEAT'A clever, creepy read' SUNDAY EXPRESSConsumption has ravaged Louise Pinecroft's family, leaving her and her father alone and heartbroken.But Dr Pinecroft has plans for a revolutionary experiment: convinced that sea air will prove to be the cure his wife and children needed, he arranges to house a group of prisoners suffering from the same disease in the cliffs beneath his new Cornish home.Forty years later, Hester Why arrives at Morvoren House to take up a position as nurse to the now partially paralysed and almost entirely mute Miss Pinecroft. Hester has fled to Cornwall to try and escape her past, but she soon discovers that her new home may be just as dangerous as her last.Laura Purcell's next novel, The Shape of Darkness, is coming in January 2021...

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Deliciously spooky Observer

O autorze

Laura Purcell is a former bookseller living in Colchester, Essex with her husband and pet guinea pigs. She is the author of six novels, among them Gothic novel The Silent Companions, which was a Radio 2 and Zoe Ball ITV Book Club pick and The Shape of Darkness, winner of the inaugural Fingerprint Award for Historical Crime Book of the Year. Her short story 'The Chillingham Chair' was included in The Haunting Season anthology, which was an instant Sunday Times bestseller. She also wrote 'Roanoake Falls', a dramatic podcast for Realm, working with John Carpenter and Sandy King Carpenter.