Bone China

Critics Review

• Deliciously spooky

  Observer

• Anyone familiar with Purcell’s previous novels will know she’s an expert at bone-rattling tension … and Bone China is just as eerie … Written with an atmosphere of real foreboding, this is a sensational late autumn read as the evenings close in

  Stylist

• Du Maurier-tastic … Purcell has a sure storytelling touch, a command of atmosphere and a keen eye for the telling details of social history. Oh, and she stores up some satisfying and suitably macabre final revelations

  Guardian

• 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 Bone China, 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, Bone China 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. Bone China 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 Jamaica Inn or the next Rebecca, but Bone China 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

  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'

• Praise for The Corset: A classic Victorian tale of murder most foul, twisted with a curious supernatural thread … chilling

  Stylist

• A contender for my Book of the Year. Beautifully written, intricately plotted, a masterpiece

  Sarah Hilary

• Intricate, atmospheric and chilling – with a wonderfully dark premise at its heart

  Woman & Home

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

  Guardian