![]() ![]() She is mute and cannot remember what happened. It begins with a patient, Mrs Elsie Bainbridge, a woman badly burnt in a fire, being questioned by Dr Shepherd, a progressive psychologist at St Joseph's, after a year in which she has been recovering from her injuries. ![]() This is a tantalisingly creepy and menacing gothic horror novel, populated by ghosts, and set in 1866. ' shone, for originality for the sheer quality of the writing, the characters and some masterly chills' Peter James ' extraordinary, memorable and truly haunting book' Jojo Moyes Winner of the W H Smith Thumping Good Read AwardĪs featured on the Radio 2 Book Club and the Zoe Ball ITV Book Club The residents of the estate are terrified of the figure, but Elsie tries to shrug this off as simple superstition-that is until she notices the figure’s eyes following her.Ī Victorian ghost story that evokes a most unsettling kind of fear, The Silent Companions is a tale that creeps its way through the consciousness in ways you least expect-much like the companions themselves. Inside her new home lies a locked door, beyond which is a painted wooden figure-a silent companion-that bears a striking resemblance to Elsie herself. But pregnant and widowed just weeks after their wedding, with her new servants resentful and the local villagers actively hostile, Elsie has only her late husband’s awkward cousin for company-or so she thinks. When Elsie married handsome young heir Rupert Bainbridge, she believed she was destined for a life of luxury. ![]()
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