The Laura Purcell Collection: The Silent Companions, The Corset and Bone China
Ebook
Overview
A collection of three deliciously dark, atmospheric tales: read with the lights on.
The Silent Companions: winner of the WHS Thumping Good Read award
’[An] extraordinary, memorable and truly haunting book’ Jojo Moyes
Some doors are locked for a reason... Newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband’s remote country estate only to discover a mysterious locked door.
The Corset
’The Corset is a contender for my Book of the Year. Beautifully written, intricately plotted, a masterpiece’ Sarah Hilary
Is prisoner Ruth Butterham mad or a murderer? Victim or villain?
Bone China
‘Deliciously sinister’ Heat
A scientist attempts a revolutionary experiment in the caves under a Cornish manor house. Forty years later, the young daughter of the house is now an almost mute invalid, haunted by what she saw.
’Laura is a masterful writer, her deliciously gothic stories so skilfully woven that you can’t get them out of your head even if you wanted to’ Stacey Halls, author of The Familiars and The Foundling
Three wonderfully gothic tales from the queen of the atmospheric page turner, Laura Purcell.
Laura Purcell’s books are the perfect choice for reading groups and lovers of gothic and historical fiction
The Silent Companions won the WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award and was a Radio 2 and Zoe Ball ITV book club pick, while both The Corset and Bone China have received widespread critical acclaim and amassed a loyal fanbase
[Laura Purcell] does creeping menace like no one else. With Bone China, once again, I’m sleeping with the lights on
Laura’s characters and the world they inhabit are compelling, unsettling and richly drawn. A fabulous tale!
Irresistibly creepy, this romps along
- Title: The Laura Purcell Collection: The Silent Companions, The Corset and Bone China
- Author: Laura Purcell
- Publisher: Raven Books
- Print Publication Date: 2020
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 496
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781526630759, 1526630753
- Resource ID: LLS:9781526630759
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T14:32:58Z
Laura Purcell is a former bookseller and lives in Colchester with her husband and pet guinea pigs. Her first novel for Raven Books, The Silent Companions, was a Radio 2 and Zoe Ball ITV Book Club pick and was the winner of the WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award, while Laura's gothic chiller The Corset was acclaimed as a 'masterpiece' by readers and reviewers alike.
Her new book - The Shape of Darkness - will be published in January 2021.
laurapurcell.com