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Praise for Laura Purcell

PRAISE FOR THE SILENT COMPANIONS

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

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

A deliciously creepy ghost story
― Sunday Express

A perfect read for a winter night. Intriguing, nuanced and genuinely eerie
― Guardian

A creepy, unsettling tale that I had to finish reading in broad daylight
― Stylist, ‘Must-Read Books’

A sinister slice of Victorian gothic… creepy and page-turning
― The Times

Really tense and unnerving, it still won’t let me go
― Woman & Home

A true page-turner…neatly crafted and compelling…with a spine-tingling revelation every few pages
― Times Literary Supplement

Irresistibly creepy, this romps along, Purcell turning her screws with skill. It’s what crumpets and dismal afternoons were made for
― Glamour

A superbly atmospheric, tense novel full of creeping dread. I could only read it during daylight hours!
― Red

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