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House of Splinters
A Horror Novel by Laura Purcell
Subgenres:
- Gothic Horror,
- Haunted House,
- Country House,
- Family Secrets,
- Historical Horror
This book is for you if you're into...
- Gothic estates with secrets lurking in every room
- Families unraveling under the weight of inheritance and suspicion
- Creepy wooden figures that might be more than they seem
From Little Stack
Belinda Bainbridge moves to The Bridge, her husband’s ancestral home, after the death of her father-in-law. At the time, they have a five-year-old son, Freddy, and Belinda is pregnant with their second child. She’s dismayed to find that the once luxurious estate is now struggling financially, in a state of disrepair, the garden wild and there are whispers about the mysterious death of one of the servants years earlier. Then Freddy begins to fixate on the silent companions - strange wooden figures previously owned by their ancestors. He even tells Belinda that they talk to him. Is this just her child’s vivid imagination or is something sinister happening in her home?
House of Splinters is the long-awaited prequel to bestselling and multi award-winning author Laura Purcell’s gothic horror classic, The Silent Companions.
Not every house is a home …
Belinda Bainbridge has spent her life in the shadow of her anxious mother, so when her father-in-law dies at The Bridge, his remote ancestral seat, she is secretly thrilled. His death means she, her husband, Wilfred, and their children can relocate and finally begin to create their own happy home together: born a merchant’s daughter, she will now be lady of the manor.
But their new home quickly proves far from ideal. The garden is a wilderness, the estate is struggling financially, there are whispers about the mysterious death of a servant many years before, while their young son, Freddie, seems unusually fixated on the strange wooden figures—so-called “silent companions”—that were once owned by his ancestors.
When Wilfred’s charismatic brother, Nathan, arrives unexpectedly from abroad, bringing a very different account of the family’s past, Belinda begins to question what her husband has told her. What really lies behind the sad history of the house? And are Belinda’s children truly safe here?
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