En suivant ce lien, retrouvez tous les livres dans la spécialité Contemporains. 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. Laura Purcell is a former bookseller and lives in Colchester with her husband and pet guinea pigs. Hester has fled to Cornwall to try and escape her past, but she soon discovers that her new home may be just as dangerous as her last.Laura Purcell's next novel, The Shape of Darkness, is coming in January 2021. But Dr Pinecroft has plans for a revolutionary experiment: convinced that sea air will prove to be the cure his wife and children needed, he arranges to house a group of prisoners suffering from the same disease in the cliffs beneath his new Cornish home.įorty years later, Hester Why arrives at Morvoren House to take up a position as nurse to the now partially paralysed and almost entirely mute Miss Pinecroft. The story of the Willow Pattern was an English invention, written after the print had already enjoyed considerable success.From the award-winning author of The Silent Companions.'Du Maurier-tastic' GUARDIAN'Deliciously sinister' HEAT 'A clever, creepy read' SUNDAY EXPRESS Consumption has ravaged Louise Pinecroft's family, leaving her and her father alone and heartbroken. “One of the first China-clay setts was opened on Tregonning Hill, not far from Rinsey Hill.
The vast landscapes are grey and dreary, the cold weather only adds to the emptiness Hester feels inside. She seems haunted and determined to escape the clutches of a grave crime committed by Hester herself.
Light pulses around the cracks at the edges – a candle, moving behind. Bone China’s protagonist, Hester Why (or Esther Stevens as you will learn later), is a nurse/lady’s maid on the run. “The front door is an old wooden think it does not appear terribly thick. As if it had always been here, and will always remain, despite the frenzy of the sea beneath.” Yes, that is the prevailing impression Morvoren makes upon me: one of stoic calm. “All of the window shutters remain closed. “I must take the Mail coach somewhere, and it seems appropriate to flee to the end of the country, a place teetering on the edge of the map.” This is my first book by Laura Purcell and hopefully it’s clear that I’m not well-versed in the work of modern gothic writers in general so what follows should be read with those caveats in mind. The journey to the main house in the novel: Bone China by Laura Purcell has finally got me over the starting line, courtesy of The Pigeonhole. There’s plenty of Cornish mist and intrigue in this novel! One journey to the place involves a stage coach from London via Falmouth to a land surrounded in mist, magical legends and a remote, gothic house. Travel Guide Travel to the atmospheric landscape of Bodmin Moor
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