Writing in the tradition of country house ghost stories, Laura Purcell has created a book that is unnerving and compelling in equal measure. The Silent Companions is an atmospheric gothic tale which chills the blood

Sophia Tobin, author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Silversmith's Wife and The Widow's Confession

Not since The Little Stranger has a book so entranced and haunted me. Compelling, bewitching and beautifully written. Read it if you dare

Anna Mazzola, author of The Unseeing

If The Silent Companions lands on your night table, don't plan on leaving your bed anytime soon. Immersive, meticulous, and reminiscent of the masters of gothic fiction – not only a compulsively readable ghost story, but a skillful, loving ode to the entire genre

Lyndsay Faye, author of The Gods of Gotham

Frighteningly atmospheric, genuinely haunting and psychologically astute, the horror of The Silent Companions lingers like truth in the darkest corners of the human mind

Helen Sedgwick, author of The Comet Seekers

Compelling and claustrophobic. The pages all but turn by themselves

Essie Fox, author of The Last Days of Leda Grey

Magnificently creepy … I really wished it were longer

Natasha Pulley, author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street