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Bone China
Bone China | Laura Purcell
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The new historical chiller from the author of The Silent Companions and The Corset 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 same disease in the cliffs 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 Why arrives at Morvoren House to take up a position as nurse to the now partially paralysed and almost entirely mute Miss Pinecroft. Hester has fled to Cornwall to try and escape her past, but surrounded by superstitious staff enacting bizarre rituals, she soon discovers that her new home may be just as dangerous as her last...
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LeahBergen
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I‘ve been spending a couple of lazy Saturday hours with this one today and very much enjoying it so far!

Aimeesue The Silent Companions was very creepy 😬 1y
LeeRHarry Will be interested in your review - have this on my shelves. 😊 1y
LeahBergen @LeeRHarry I‘m thoroughly enjoying it. It has a good old-fashioned gothicky vibe. 1y
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rachaich
Bone China | Laura Purcell
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Mehso-so

Hmmm, I'm unsure...
Really liked the first third or even half. I liked reading the different storylines and the undertones of intrigue, also the relationship between father and daughter and her scientific and medical knowledge which was almost discounted.
However, the last chapters just didn't have the same impact or creepiness.

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rachaich
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Home on my own, feeling nippy ok there, what better way to spend the evening ☺🤗😍.
I've read Purcell 's other two and enjoyed them with their spooky ideas.
Plus a new tea, cocoa nibs, cinnamon and liquorice. Mmm. 🍵

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Icepop
Bone China | Laura Purcell
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Loving this book so much!! Housework is over rated anyway!! 😂😂

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Caroline2
Bone China | Laura Purcell
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Laura Purcell is one of my favourite authors, I would read her shopping list! This is her third book and while it still has the beautiful, atmospheric writing and creeping dreading of Corset & Silent Companions it‘s a lot more melancholy. A mad scientist is trying to find the cure for consumption. It‘s a cracking, Victorian gothic mystery with characters I loved but the ending hit me so hard it gave me stomach ache!!! 😆 🤦‍♀️

Caroline2 @squirrelbrain Thank you so much for getting this for me. It was such an engrossing read! Really, really good. 👍 2y
TrishB I love the description of the ending! 2y
squirrelbrain Woah, that sounds great, especially the ending! Glad you liked it! 😘 2y
bthegood You sold me on this one with your first line - reading her shopping list - 😂 2y
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DeeLew
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Laura Purcell is kind of a modern day Daphne du Maurier. This is my second of her books and I loved it almost as much as The Silent Companions. Creepy gothic story. 4/5 stars ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️

LeahBergen Great photo! 3y
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TheEllieMo
Bone China | Laura Purcell
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I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join the fun if you want.
This is day 224
#BooksToRead #TBRPile #TBRMountain

Lucy_Anywhere I enjoyed this one 3y
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LostInSpace
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This is the second novel I have read by Laura Purcell and I must admit I was not disappointed.

Gothic and creepy, this story is atmospheric and leaves you wondering what exactly is going on in Morvoren House.

The characters are well written leaving you sympathetic to their pasts, I think I enjoyed this book more than the other I have read (The Silent Companions)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Cathythoughts Oh good to hear ... as I loved Silent Companions ... must get to this one , I think I have it on kindle 👍🏻😁 3y
Icepop Thanks for lending it to me. Looking forward to reading it! 3y
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Caroline2
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Thank you so much Helen for all my awesome presents! 😀 I love the little TBR bag! And I can‘t wait to read Bone China! Thank you! 😘

Cinfhen Happy Birthday 🎉 ❤️what a lovely gift 3y
rockpools Lovely! Have a wonderful day Caroline! 3y
Caroline2 @Cinfhen @rockpools Thanks Ladies! 😁 3y
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eraderneely Happy Birthday!!! 3y
Caroline2 @eraderneely Thank you. 😁 3y
squirrelbrain I hope you haven‘t read that book.... 🤞 I know that you like her books so maybe you‘ve read them all? I was tempted to keep the TBR bag for myself! 3y
Caroline2 @squirrelbrain Nope! I‘ve not read it yet! 😀 I loved her first two books so I can‘t wait to jump in and yeah, I don‘t blame you on the bag, it‘s super cute! 😉 3y
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Lucy_Anywhere
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Thanks for the tag @RamsFan1963

1. Pancakes every time!
2. Pie, but like proper British meat pie. I love a good pork pie or chicken and ham
3. I like the big floppy paperbacks but most of my books are ebooks
4. Give me all the spice!

@MoonWitch94 #thoughtfulthursday

MoonWitch94 Thanks for playing 🎂✨☺️ 4y
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veritysalter
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I was eagerly anticipating this third novel by Laura Purcell, her books have a hint of ‘The Turn of the Screw‘ insomuch as, is there a supernatural explanation or does the mind create one due to external influences and suggestion? Purcell has throughly researched the history and folklore of fairies and pixies in the South of England and blends these beautifully into this creepy tale of isolation and disease.

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TaciturnWhenReading
Bone China | Laura Purcell
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I loved the earlier Laura Purcell gothic stories. Started this new one today and so far it‘s creepy and wonderful!🤪

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Bran_Pap
Bone China | Laura Purcell
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Just over 100 pages into #BoneChina by #LauraPurcell now! Not usually a fan of #HistoricalFiction, but this #Gothic novel is really doing it for me. Plus I‘m loving the queer undertones. This is a great read for a dreary day, y‘all!

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Tashreads
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If you are looking for a creepy, sinister book to read this Halloween, look no further. Faeries, dark caves, floating lights, radical medical experiments, haunted houses, servants with shocking secrets, changelings and scary dolls. Yes yes yes!! This has it all. ⁣

Bone China is a character driven gothic tale of superstition, obsession and insanity. I was gripped and beguiled.⁣

JennyM I‘m too 🐔 💩 for this!!! 5y
LeeRHarry @JennyM me too 😂 5y
Tashreads @JennyM @LeeRHarry 🤣🤣 it‘s actually not too bad. Not straight up horror - just very unsettling and ominous. 5y
Aloisi_tribe Ooh I love her books! Thanks for the reminder that she has a new one out! I just ordered it from Amazon. 😁 5y
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VanessaCW
Bone China | Laura Purcell
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A dark, atmospheric and wonderfully creepy tale set in a stunningly picturesque part of Britain. There is a great sense of foreboding and eeriness throughout the story. It‘s a slow burner with a gradual build up of tension, drawing the reader in and making you wonder if there are in fact ‘little folk‘ and ‘changelings‘! The ending is a surprising and shocking - it made me gasp. This is definitely a tale of the unexpected.

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ladyonequestion
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Got my grubby mits on an arc! I ❤️ Laura Purcell so much. Historical fiction with a gothic and paranormal spin. It skillfully weaves a few mysteries together. Hester Why, who has left her last job under bad circumstances takes up a job in a creepy house looking after Miss Pinecroft. The servants are obsessed with fairies and pixies. Forty years earlier Miss Pinecroft helps her father in his attempts to cure consumptive prisoners. Out September.

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