The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell

The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell

Newly widowed and pregnant, Elsie is sent to her husband's crumbling country house, where the villagers will not work and the servants will not stay. In a locked garret she finds a wooden figure painted to look like a girl, and a diary from two hundred years earlier.

The companions — life-sized painted boards, a real Jacobean fashion — begin appearing in rooms nobody carried them into. Purcell runs three timelines and the historical layer, a 1635 household preparing for a royal visit, is the most frightening. The frame is Elsie in an asylum, unable or unwilling to speak.

Winner of the WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award. Modern gothic at its best.

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