![]() ![]() ![]() Intriguing, nuanced and genuinely eerie' - Guardian 'A creepy, unsettling tale that I had to finish reading in broad daylight' - Stylist 'A deliciously creepy ghost story' - Sunday Express ![]() ![]() Perfect setting, great build-up, chilling. Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC ISBN: 9781408888032 Number of pages: 384 Weight: 273 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm MEDIA REVIEWS 'Layering on the dark and creepy, this intriguingly plotted novel is the full-blown Gothic, maintaining throughout an unsettling claustrophobic atmosphere mixed with some unusual historical detail' - Daily Mail Or so she thinks.įor 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. With her new servants resentful and the local villagers actively hostile, Elsie only has her husband's awkward cousin for company. Newly married, newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country estate, The Bridge. How could she relive it? How could she bring herself to do it to them, all over again? She peered into the blank page, trying to see, somewhere in its vast expanse of nothing, that other woman from long ago. In the gloom she saw a void of white, waiting for her words. Inspired by the work of Shirley Jackson and Susan Hill and set in a crumbling country mansion, The Silent Companions is an unsettling gothic ghost story to send a shiver down the spine. ![]()
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