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Laura Purcell

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in The United Kingdom

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Historical Fiction, Paranormal, Horror

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Laura Purcell is a former bookseller and lives in Colchester with her husband and pet guinea pigs.

Her first novel for Raven Books THE SILENT COMPANIONS won the WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award 2018 and featured in both the Zoe Ball and Radio 2 Book Clubs. Other Gothic novels include THE CORSET (THE POISON THREAD in USA), BONE CHINA and THE SHAPE OF DARKNESS (2020)

Laura’s historical fiction about the Hanoverian monarchs, QUEEN OF BEDLAM and MISTRESS OF THE COURT, was published by Myrmidon.

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Average rating: 3.87 · 88,490 ratings · 13,213 reviews · 16 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Silent Companions 3.88 avg rating — 41,597 ratings — published 2017 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Corset 4.14 avg rating — 15,744 ratings — published 2018 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bone China 3.65 avg rating — 7,603 ratings — published 2019 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shape of Darkness 3.82 avg rating — 5,894 ratings — published 2021 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Whispering Muse 3.92 avg rating — 4,538 ratings — published 2023 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moonstone 3.31 avg rating — 894 ratings — published 2024 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Queen of Bedlam (Georgian Queens Book 1) 3.69 avg rating — 668 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mistress of the Court (Georgian Queens, #2) 4.01 avg rating — 231 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	House of Splinters 4.24 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 2025 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Laura Purcell Collection: The Silent Companions, The Corset and Bone China 4.35 avg rating — 23 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Shadow in the Glass

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“Death, once conceived, was rapacious. It took all with it.”
― Laura Purcell, The Silent Companions

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“Imprisonment was never the real punishment: it was the people you were stuck with.”
― Laura Purcell, The Silent Companions

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“She had an urge to confess everything: tell him about the splinters on Rupert’s neck; the nursery; the garret; the handprint; the eyes. But to speak of such things made them a farce. You could not explain fear; you could only feel it, roaring through the silence and striking your heart still.”
― Laura Purcell, The Silent Companions

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4th Quarter 2022 - Horror #2

The Vessel by Adam Nevill - 162 pp

3 votes, 27.3%

House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson - 304 pp

3 votes, 27.3%

Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott - 448 pp

2 votes, 18.2%

Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste - 320 pp

2 votes, 18.2%

Women's Weird: Strange Stories by Women, 1890-1940 by Melissa Edmundson - 298 pp

1 vote, 9.1%

Bone China by Laura Purcell - 433 pgs

0 votes, 0.0%

Crota by Owl Goingback - 320 pp

0 votes, 0.0%

Daphne by Josh Malerman - 352 pp

0 votes, 0.0%

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― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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“If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

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“I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.”
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