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Description
LAURA PURCELL'S HOUSE OF SPLINTERS IS AVAILABLE TO PREORDER NOW
As featured on the Radio 2 Book Club
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...
'[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
READERS LOVE THE SILENT COMPANIONS:
'Phenomenal'
'Will stay with you long after you have finished reading'
'Spooky, imaginative, original'
'Couldn't put it down'
'Truly creepy'
'Deserves a place on every bookshelf'
Product details
Published | 23 Oct 2025 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 600 |
ISBN | 9781526694058 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Dimensions | 234 x 153 mm |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Ghost stories are for Christmas. Some recent ones haven't quite got it right but this is terrific. Perfect setting, great build-up, chilling. What more could you want ?
Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black
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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
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A deliciously creepy ghost story
Sunday Express
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Laura Purcell has nailed it with a story that conjures up Susan Hill's The Woman In Black, Henry James's The Turn Of The Screw and a little bit of Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Emerald Street
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A perfect read for a winter night … Intriguing, nuanced and genuinely eerie
Guardian
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A creepy, unsettling tale that I had to finish reading in broad daylight
Stylist, 'Must-Read Books'