Her tale of secret guilt and atoning for it through ancient customs will please fans of classic gothic melodrama. Purcell paints a colorful portrait of her tale’s distant time and place and immerses the reader in an era when superstition was a tenacious thread in the social fabric that bound its people. Pinecroft’s confidence as a man of reason and the doubts it raises in him about his efficacy as a physician set the stage for the dramas that have festered into the novel’s present, and mirror the dangerous conditions Hester fled in London. That superstition, as it develops, channels directly back to Louise’s work with her physician father 40 years earlier, and his efforts to cure tubercular patients with primitive medicine in the region’s fairy-haunted caves. Hester soon discovers that the members of Louise’s household believe fairy changelings have a foothold among Morvoren’s personnel. In the early 19th century, a maid going by the alias Hester Why has fled her employ in London under an unexplained dark cloud to serve as nursemaid to elderly spinster Louise Pinecroft, owner of Morvoren House on the remote Cornish coast. Her tale of secret guilt and atoning for it through ancient customs will please fans of classic gothic melodrama.Purcell ( The Poison Thread) tantalizes with a skillful juxtaposition of nascent science and entrenched folk belief in this brooding period gothic.
She worked in local government, the financial industry and a bookshop before becoming a full-time writer.
Purcell ( The Poison Thread) tantalizes with a skillful juxtaposition of nascent science and entrenched folk belief in this brooding period gothic. Laura Purcell is the author of The Silent Companions, The Poison Thread, and The House of Whispers.
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