Silent Companions: The perfect spooky tale to curl up with this winter

The Whispering Muse is a thrilling new novel by Laura Purcell that was awarded the W H Smith Thumping Good Read Award. It follows newly married Elsie, who is sent to her late husband's crumbling country estate, The Bridge, to see out her pregnancy. She soon discovers a locked room and a two-hundred-year-old diary, as well as a deeply unsettling painted wooden figure, a Silent Companion, that bears a striking resemblance to her.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 384 pages
Publication date: 05 April 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

LAURA PURCELL'S THRILLING NEW NOVEL THE WHISPERING MUSE IS OUT NOW Winner of the W H Smith Thumping Good Read Award As featured on the Radio 2 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... 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...

Weight: 274g
Dimension: 128 x 196 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781408888032