The Silent Companions

Author: Laura Purcell

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) | Crime & mystery | Thriller / suspense | Horror & ghost stories

Published on 23^rd October 2025 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 564 pages
232mm x 155mm x 43mm | 762g

LAURA PURCELL'S SPINE-TINGLING HOUSE OF SPLINTERS IS OUT NOWAs featured on the Radio 2 Book ClubSome 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...

‘[An] extraordinary, memorable and truly haunting book’ Jojo Moyes‘[It] shone, for originality for the sheer quality of the writing, the characters and some masterly chills’ Peter JamesREADERS LOVE THE SILENT COMPANIONS:'Phenomenal' 'Will stay with you long after you have finished reading''Spooky, imaginative, original' 'Couldn't put it down' 'Truly creepy' 'Deserves a place on every bookshelf'