'If The Silent Companions lands on your night table, don't plan on leaving your bed anytime soon. Read it if you dare' - Anna Mazzola, author of The Unseeing Here you get Laura Purcells novel on CD in the form of an audiobook read by Kati Winter The MP3-CD is available in a noble DVD case for collecting, as well as. Compelling, bewitching and beautifully written. 'Not since The Little Stranger has a book so entranced and haunted me. 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 This Silent Manga Catalogue Teacher’s Companion is intended for use by teachers (or parents) together with Silent Manga Catalogue, a compilation of Silent Manga entries selected from SILENT MANGA AUDITION® Round 13, which was based on the theme ‘Together for Peace’. The residents of the estate are terrified of the figure, but Elsie tries to shrug this off as simple superstition-that is, until she notices the figure’s eyes following her.Ī Victorian ghost story that evokes a most unsettling kind of fear, The Silent Companions is a tale that creeps its way through the consciousness in ways you least expect-much like the companions themselves.'Writing in the tradition of country house ghost stories, Laura Purcell has created a book that is unnerving and compelling in equal measure. Inside her new home lies a locked door, beyond which is a painted wooden figure-a silent companion-that bears a striking resemblance to Elsie herself. This book title, The Silent Companions (A Novel), ISBN: 9780143131632, by Laura Purcell, published by Penguin Publishing Group (March 6, 2018) is available.

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. We’ll meet the small resentful staff for the first time, and the local villagers who are not all that friendly either. When Elsie married handsome young heir Rupert Bainbridge, she believed she was destined for a life of luxury. In The Silent Companions, we take the bumpy carriage ride with Elsie, a newly widowed pregnant woman, to her isolated estate in Victorian England. Laura Purcell's THE SHAPE OF DARKNESS is now out from Penguin! “ extraordinary, memorable and truly haunting book.” - Jojo Moyes, #1 New York Times bestselling author

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