The Shape of Darkness: 'A future gothic classic' Martyn Waites
Jan 2021 · Bloomsbury Publishing
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*LAURA PURCELL'S HOUSE OF SPLINTERS IS AVAILABLE TO PREORDER NOW*
Winner of the Historical Crime Book of the Year 2021 Award at the 2022 Fingerprint Crime Awards
'Dripping with atmosphere with a corkscrew plot, Laura Purcell just gets better and better' STACEY HALLS
'It truly kept me guessing to the very last page' SONIA VELTON
Wicked deeds require the cover of darkness...
A struggling silhouette artist in Victorian Bath seeks out a renowned child spirit medium in order to speak to the dead – and to try and identify their killers – in this beguiling new tale from Laura Purcell.
Silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep her business afloat. Still recovering from a serious illness herself, making enough money to support her elderly mother and her orphaned nephew Cedric has never been easy, but then one of her clients is murdered shortly after sitting for Agnes, and then another, and another...
Desperately seeking an answer, Agnes approaches Pearl, a child spirit medium lodging in Bath with her older half-sister and her ailing father, hoping that if Pearl can make contact with those who died, they might reveal who killed them. But Agnes and Pearl quickly discover that instead they may have opened the door to something that they can never put back...
What secrets lie hidden in the darkness?
Winner of the Historical Crime Book of the Year 2021 Award at the 2022 Fingerprint Crime Awards
'Dripping with atmosphere with a corkscrew plot, Laura Purcell just gets better and better' STACEY HALLS
'It truly kept me guessing to the very last page' SONIA VELTON
Wicked deeds require the cover of darkness...
A struggling silhouette artist in Victorian Bath seeks out a renowned child spirit medium in order to speak to the dead – and to try and identify their killers – in this beguiling new tale from Laura Purcell.
Silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep her business afloat. Still recovering from a serious illness herself, making enough money to support her elderly mother and her orphaned nephew Cedric has never been easy, but then one of her clients is murdered shortly after sitting for Agnes, and then another, and another...
Desperately seeking an answer, Agnes approaches Pearl, a child spirit medium lodging in Bath with her older half-sister and her ailing father, hoping that if Pearl can make contact with those who died, they might reveal who killed them. But Agnes and Pearl quickly discover that instead they may have opened the door to something that they can never put back...
What secrets lie hidden in the darkness?
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4.8
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March 1, 2021
The Shape of Darkness by Laura Purcell, narrated by Sophie Aldred Laura Purcell's latest offering, The Shape of Darkness, narrated perfectly by Sophie Aldred, is up to her usual standard of spooky suspense. This title relates to a young, albino child who genuinely has the gift of mediumship and is used by her elder sister to earn money for them and for the younger girl's father who is suffering from phosphorus poisoning after working in a match factory. Added to these characters are Agnes, a struggling silhouette artist whose customers have started to turn up dead and her former brother in law, Simon, who is also a surgeon. There are many, many secrets in the plot and I am not about to divulge any of them, suffice to say that if you enjoyed Ms Purcell’s previous titles, you will love this one too and, if you haven’t read any then you can start here as all her novels stand alone. As usual The Shape of Darkness is beautifully written and I recommend it unreservedly.
About the author
Laura Purcell is a former bookseller and lives in Colchester with her husband and pet guinea pigs. Her first novel for Raven Books, The Silent Companions, was a Radio 2 and Zoe Ball ITV Book Club pick and was the winner of the WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award, while her subsequent books – The Corset and Bone China – established Laura as the queen of the sophisticated, and spooky, page-turner.
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