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Когда Элси выходила замуж за аристократа Руперта Бейнбриджа, она верила, что впереди у нее прекрасная беззаботная жизнь. Но судьба распоряжается по-своему. Вскоре после свадьбы Элси теряет мужа и отправляется в заброшенное поместье в английской глубинке, чтобы горевать подальше от людских глаз. Однако и там она не находит утешения: слуги настроены враждебно, кузина…

A new gothic Victorian tale from Laura Purcell, set on the atmospheric Cornish coast in a rambling house by the sea in which a maid cares for a mute old woman with a mysterious past, alongside her superstitious staff.

Consumption has ravaged Louise Pinecroft’s family, leaving her and her father alone and heartbroken. 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 disease in the caves beneath his new Cornish home. While he devotes himself to his controversial medical trials, Louise finds herself increasingly discomfited by the strange tales her new maid tells of the fairies that hunt the land, searching for those they can steal away to their realm.

Forty years later, Hester arrives at Morvoren House to take up a position as nurse to the now partially paralyzed and mute Miss Pinecroft. Hester has fled to Cornwall to try to escape her past, but surrounded by superstitious staff enacting bizarre rituals, she soon discovers her new home may be just as dangerous as her last.

`[An] extraordinary, memorable and truly haunting book' Jojo Moyes
`Terrific. Perfect setting, great build-up, chilling. What more could you want?' Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black
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...
Laura's second novel, The Corset, is now available in paperback and eBook.