6/30/2023 0 Comments Queen of Bedlam by Laura Purcell![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Layering on the dark and creepy, this intriguingly plotted novel is the full-blown Gothic, maintaining throughout an unsettling claustrophobic atmosphere mixed with some unusual historical detail’ - Daily Mail ‘ 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 Laura’s newest novel, The Whispering Muse, was published in February 2023 by Raven Books. She contributed to the Sunday Times Bestselling collection The Haunting Season. These include Cameo, featured in Phantoms, Vanitas in the Audible Original Homeless Bodies and Other Stories and Creeping Ivy, published October 2020 in After Sundown. In the USA Laura is published by Penguin Books, where The Corset is titled The Poison Thread and Bone China is called The House of Whispers.Īdditionally, Laura's short stories have been published in a number of collections. Her other Gothic titles include The Corset, Bone China and her most recent novel The Shape of Darkness. Her first Gothic novel for Raven Books, The Silent Companions, was a Radio 2 Book Club pick, was selected for the Zoe Ball ITV Book Club and was the winner of the Thumping Good Read Award. She began her career with two historical novels about the Hanoverian monarchs, Queen of Bedlam and Mistress of the Court. Laura Purcell is a former bookseller living in Colchester, Essex with her husband and pet guinea pigs. ![]()
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