The Silent Companions
★★★★ ★★
3.88 
799 den
Pages 364
Published 1.4.2018
Binding Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Dimensions 200 x 128 x 24 mm
Language English
Historical FictionParanormalGothicThrillersFantasyHorrorHistoricalBook ClubThrillerJust InFictionMysteryMystery & Detective
As featured on the Radio 2 Book Club. 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...
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