Moonstone by Laura Purcell
A sparkling gothic romance from award-winning bestseller Laura PurcellPraise for Laura Purcell
"Brilliant and beautiful, Moonstone is the Gothic werewolf love story we've all been waiting forEasily one of my favourite books of the year!"
-JJA Harwood
PRAISE FOR THE SILENT COMPANIONS
Ghost stories are for Christmas. Some recent ones haven’t quite got it right but this is terrific. Perfect setting, great build-up, chilling. What more could you want?
― Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black
Layering on the dark and creepy, this intriguingly plotted novel is the full-blown Gothic, maintaining throughout an unsettling claustrophobic atmosphere mixed with some unusual historical detail
― Daily Mail
A deliciously creepy ghost story
― Sunday Express
A perfect read for a winter night. Intriguing, nuanced and genuinely eerie
― Guardian
A creepy, unsettling tale that I had to finish reading in broad daylight
― Stylist, ‘Must-Read Books’
A sinister slice of Victorian gothic… creepy and page-turning
― The Times
Really tense and unnerving, it still won’t let me go
― Woman & Home
A true page-turner…neatly crafted and compelling…with a spine-tingling revelation every few pages
― Times Literary Supplement
Irresistibly creepy, this romps along, Purcell turning her screws with skill. It’s what crumpets and dismal afternoons were made for
― Glamour
A superbly atmospheric, tense novel full of creeping dread. I could only read it during daylight hours!
― Red
Laura Purcell is a former bookseller living in Colchester, Essex with her husband and pet guinea pigs. She is the author of six novels, among them Gothic novel The Silent Companions, which was a Radio 2 and Zoe Ball ITV Book Club pick and The Shape of Darkness, winner of the inaugural Fingerprint Award for Historical Crime Book of the Year. Her short story The Chillingham Chair was included in The Haunting Season anthology, which was an instant Sunday Times bestseller. She also wrote Roanoake Falls, a dramatic podcast for Realm, working with John Carpenter and Sandy King Carpenter.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780008562823 |
| ISBN 10 | 0008562822 |
| Title | Moonstone |
| Author | Laura Purcell |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2024-05-23 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |