The Silent Companions
- ISBN-10
- 1408888092
- ISBN-13
- 9781408888094
- Series
- The Silent Companions
- Category
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
- Pages
- 384
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-10-05
- Author
- Laura Purcell
Description
As featured on the Radio 2 Book Club. Curl up with gothic chiller The Silent Companions this winter, and send a shiver down your spine...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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