As featured on the }Radio 2 Book Club{, this is a chilling ghost story to send shivers down your spine. Newly married, newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at a crumbling estate, The Bridge. She thinks her only company is her husband's awkward cousin but theres a locked room and in the room lies a two-hundred-year-old diary and a deeply unsettling painted wooden figure who has a striking resemblance to Elsie herself.. LAURA PURCELL'S THRILLING NEW NOVEL THE WHISPERING MUSE IS AVAILABLE TO PREORDER NOW Winner of the W H Smith Thumping Good Read Award As featured on the Radio 2 Book Club '[An] extraordinary, memorable and truly haunting book' Jojo Moyes '[It] shone, for originality for the sheer quality of the writing, the characters and some masterly chills' Peter James Some doors are locked for a reason... Newly married, newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country estate, The Bridge. With her new servants resentful and the local villagers actively hostile, Elsie only has her husband's awkward cousin for company. Or so she thinks. For inside her new home lies a locked room, and beyond that door lies a two-hundred-year-old diary and a deeply unsettling painted wooden figure - a Silent Companion - that bears a striking resemblance to Elsie herself...