![]() ![]() I also adored Laura’s next novel, The Corset – and of course I reviewed it! If you need to know why, you can read my review here. ![]() If you have learned anything about me in our time together, you will know that The Silent Companions is quite possibly my favourite novel. ‘Can a woman control a house, a family, through something as brittle as porcelain?’ 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. Available online and from all good bookshopsĬonsumption has ravaged Louise Pinecroft’s family, leaving her and her father alone and heartbroken.īut 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. ![]()
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