“If The Silent Companions lands on your night table, don't plan on leaving your bed anytime soon.” —Lyndsay Faye, bestselling author of Jane SteeleWhen newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband’s crumbling country estate, what greets her is far from the life of wealth
The Silent Companions
✍ Scribed by Laura Purcell
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing;Raven Books
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 172 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1408888114
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
**Winner of the WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award
As featured on the Radio 2 Book Club and the Zoe Ball ITV 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 James**
Some doors are locked for a reason...
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**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...
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