The Silent Companions: Laura Purcell

`[An] extraordinary, memorable and truly haunting book` Jojo Moyes
`Terrific. Perfect setting, great build-up, chilling. What more could you want?` Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black
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...
Laura`s second novel, The Corset, is now available in paperback and eBook.