Consumption has ravaged Louise Pinecroft’s family, leaving her and her father alone and heartbroken. But Dr 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 same disease in the cliffs beneath his new Cornish home. 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.

Forty years later, Hester Why arrives at Morvoren House to take up a position as nurse to the now partially paralysed and almost entirely mute Miss Pinecroft. Hester has fled to Cornwall to try and escape her past, but surrounded by superstitious staff enacting bizarre rituals, she soon discovers that her new home may be just as dangerous as her last.

Published October 2019 by Raven Books UK

You know I’m a sucker for a pretty cover right? Well would you just look at this one. What an absolute beaut! There’s no way it wasn’t going to make it on my shelves.

WHY have I never read Laura Purcell’s books before! This creepy, gothic story was right up my street. A creepy old house, strange and eccentric characters, myth and folklore and a touch of the supernatural- Bone China ticked all the boxes ✅

I adored the atmospheric writing which richly evoked the isolated and wild setting and the sinister tension rippling throughout. I loved the myth and folklore littered throughout the pages. This is a perfect book for winter, demanding to be read with the curtains shut tight and the fire burning brightly.

Beautifully written and deliciously sinister and gothic, I enjoyed every unnerving and spine tingling moment of this book. 💙💙