The release date for the English version of 'The Silent Companions' by
Laura Purcell is Mar 2018. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
What meets newly widowed Elsie upon being sent to finish her pregnancy at her late husband's dilapidated country mansion, The Bridge, is not at all the life of luxury and privilege she had anticipated...
Elsie thought she would live a life of luxury when she married the attractive young heir Rupert Bainbridge. But Elsie's sole companion is her husband's awkward cousin since her husband passed only a few weeks after they were married, her new servants are bitter, and the townsfolk are aggressively unfriendly. That is, she believes. A painted wooden figurine that seems to be Elsie herself, a quiet companion, is hidden behind a closed door within her new house. The apparition is terrifying the people of The Bridge, but Elsie attempts to brush it off as just superstition. That is, until she realises that the thing is following her.
This is a Victorian ghost story that arouses a very unpleasant form of anxiety. Like the silent companions themselves, the narrative enters your mind in unexpected ways.