Bone China
A gripping and atmospheric gothic thriller
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Bone China
Narrated by:
Laura Kirman
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Narrated by:
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Laura Kirman
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Written by:
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Laura Purcell
'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.
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.
Forty 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. Hester has fled to Cornwall to try and escape her past, but surrounded by superstitious staff enacting bizarre rituals, she soon discovers that her new home may be just as dangerous as her last…(P)2019 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Critic Reviews
Deliciously spooky
Anyone familiar with Purcell’s previous novels will know she’s an expert at bone-rattling tension … and Bone China is just as eerie … Written with an atmosphere of real foreboding, this is a sensational late autumn read as the evenings close in
Du Maurier-tastic … Purcell has a sure storytelling touch, a command of atmosphere and a keen eye for the telling details of social history. Oh, and she stores up some satisfying and suitably macabre final revelations (Paraic O’Donnell)
A Victorian tale replete with laudanum, tuberculosis and possibly fairies … a clever, creepy read
[Laura Purcell] does creeping menace like no one else. With Bone China, once again, I'm sleeping with the lights on
A brilliantly atmospheric and chilling tale and I raced through the pages hardly daring to find out what would happen next! Laura’s characters and the world they inhabit are compelling, unsettling and richly drawn. A fabulous tale! (Ruth Hogan, author of 'The Keeper of Lost Things')
With a cast of mysterious characters, a beautifully written sense of foreboding, and something malevolent (possibly) lurking around every cover, Bone China is a deliciously sinister and chilling read for fans of superior scary fiction
If Charles Dickens and Emily Brontë had a love-child, it would be Laura Purcell. Bone China is a deliciously creepy novel full of rambling houses, storm-soaked nights, sinister secrets and hidden agendas that kept me turning the pages (Lorna Cook, author of 'The Forgotten Village')
So many books are hyped up as being the next Jamaica Inn or the next Rebecca, but Bone China really is, and I think Queen Daphne might have to hand over the crown to Queen Laura. The research was just exquisite ... A cut above anything else I’ve read this year (Natasha Pulley, author of 'The Watchmaker of Filigree Street')
I absolutely loved it. Sublime gothic atmosphere, completely gripping story and I honestly didn’t expect it to hit me so hard emotionally. It’s not just that I couldn’t put it down, I just couldn’t let go of those characters (Martyn Waites, author of 'The Old Religion')
Profoundly atmospheric and eerie … Full of compelling and beautifully crafted prose and a plot that will have you racing through the pages
This is an absolute treat, all wrapped up in Laura Purcell’s gorgeous and compelling prose. I would very happily be pixy-led for days through the pages of this book! (Alison Littlewood, author of 'A Cold Season')
Menacing, macabre and utterly gripping. Laura Purcell has done it again (Essie Fox, author of 'The Last Days of Leda Grey')
Brilliant, spine chillingly clever, a fabulously suspenseful tale that will seduce you utterly with its twists and turns (Professor Kate Williams, author of 'Rival Queens')
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