But it is not long before we realise that she may have actually jumped out of the frying pan into the fire, because things are not quite as they seem at Moroven House. The secretive Hester Why, on the run from her dodgy past, thinks she has successfully hidden herself away in a new position in the wilds of Cornwall.
******************************************************Īfter thoroughly enjoying Laura Purcell's terrifying debut The Silent Companions, I couldn't wait to get started on her latest book, Bone China. What happened in those caves all those years ago and why is Miss Pinecroft obsessed with silently guarding the collection of china that is housed at Moroven House? What is she afraid of? But his experiment did not end well and only brought further tragedy to the lives of himself and his daughter. Forty years ago, after her family having been ravaged by consumption, Miss Pinecroft moved here with her father to undertake a revolutionary experiment to find a cure for the disease that had brought them so much grief.ĭr Pinecroft housed a group of consumptive former convicts in the cliffs under the house in the hope that the sea air would relieve their suffering and bring about a cure. She has taken up a position at the remote Moroven House in Cornwall, as the nurse to a partially paralysed and almost completely mute old lady called Miss Pinecroft, where she hopes to escape her past.īut Moroven House has a sinister history. Laura Purcell's THE SHAPE OF DARKNESS is now out from Penguin!Hester Why is on the run from her last position as lady's maid in a well-to-do household in London, where her jealously led to tragedy. 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.
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.įorty years later, Hester arrives at Morvoren House to take up a position as nurse to the now partially paralyzed and mute Miss Pinecroft. 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. A gothic tale set 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-from the author of The Silent Companions.Ĭonsumption has ravaged Louise Pinecroft's family, leaving her and her father alone and heartbroken.
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