A Victorian tale replete with laudanum, tuberculosis and possibly fairies … a clever, creepy read

Sunday Express, Best New Thrillers

[Laura Purcell] does creeping menace like no one else. With <i>Bone China</i>, once again, I'm sleeping with the lights on

Red

A brilliantly atmospheric and chilling tale and I raced through the pages hardly daring to find out what would happen next! Laura’s characters and the world they inhabit are compelling, unsettling and richly drawn. A fabulous tale!

- Ruth Hogan, author of 'The Keeper of Lost Things',

With a cast of mysterious characters, a beautifully written sense of foreboding, and something malevolent (possibly) lurking around every cover, <i>Bone China</i> is a deliciously sinister and chilling read for fans of superior scary fiction

Heat

If Charles Dickens and Emily Brontë had a love-child, it would be Laura Purcell. <i>Bone China</i> is a deliciously creepy novel full of rambling houses, storm-soaked nights, sinister secrets and hidden agendas that kept me turning the pages

- Lorna Cook, author of 'The Forgotten Village',

So many books are hyped up as being the next <i>Jamaica Inn</i> or the next <i>Rebecca</i>, but <i>Bone China</i> really is, and I think Queen Daphne might have to hand over the crown to Queen Laura. The research was just exquisite ... A cut above anything else I’ve read this year

- Natasha Pulley, author of 'The Watchmaker of Filigree Street',

I absolutely loved it. Sublime gothic atmosphere, completely gripping story and I honestly didn’t expect it to hit me so hard emotionally. It’s not just that I couldn’t put it down, I just couldn’t let go of those characters

- Martyn Waites, author of 'The Old Religion',

Profoundly atmospheric and eerie … Full of compelling and beautifully crafted prose and a plot that will have you racing through the pages

Sunday Post

This is an absolute treat, all wrapped up in Laura Purcell’s gorgeous and compelling prose. I would very happily be pixy-led for days through the pages of this book!

- Alison Littlewood, author of 'A Cold Season',

Menacing, macabre and utterly gripping. Laura Purcell has done it again

- Essie Fox, author of 'The Last Days of Leda Grey',

Brilliant, spine chillingly clever, a fabulously suspenseful tale that will seduce you utterly with its twists and turns

- Professor Kate Williams, author of 'Rival Queens',

Purcell is rapidly making a name for herself as the queen of the superior bone chiller and this newest novel is no exception ... Naturally nothing is as it appears and a very creepy mystery soon unfolds

- Sarah Hughes, i

I absolutely loved it! I raced through it, transfixed, as the gloomy and atmospheric Morvoren House offered up its chilling secrets. Laura spins her plot with all the mischievous cunning of a Cornish Fairy

- Sonia Velton, author of 'Blackberry and Wild Rose',

<b>Praise for <i>The Corset</i></b>:<i> </i>A classic Victorian tale of murder most foul, twisted with a curious supernatural thread ... chilling

Stylist

<b>A contender for my Book of the Year. </b>Beautifully written, intricately plotted, <b>a masterpiece</b>

- Sarah Hilary,

<b>Intricate, atmospheric and chilling</b> – with a wonderfully dark premise at its heart

Woman & Home

<b>A compelling slice of early Victorian gothic </b>… An evocative portrait of a society that punishes women who dare to contravene social norms

Guardian