The house of whispers / Laura Purcell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Purcell, Laura, author.

Standardized Title:

Bone china

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tuberculosis--Fiction.

Tuberculosis.

Human experimentation in medicine--Fiction.

Human experimentation in medicine.

Superstition.

Fairies--Fiction.

Fairies.

Superstition--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Gothic fiction.

Historical fiction.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Horror fiction.

Physical Description:

318 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Penguin Books, 2020.

Summary:

"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 disease in the caves 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 arrives at Morvoren House to take up a position as nurse to the now partially paralyzed and mute Miss Pinecroft. Hester has fled to Cornwall to try to escape her past, but surrounded by superstitious staff enacting bizarre rituals, she soon discovers her new home may be just as dangerous as her last."--Publisher.

Notes:

"A Novel"--Cover.

"First published in Great Britain as Bone China by Raven Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019"--Title page verso.

ISBN:

9780143135531

0143135538

OCLC:

1148387737

Publisher Number:

99985469909