The Silent Companions

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Set in three time scales this is truly terrific stuff, a lovely, chilling, Gothic tale.  In 1635 the “Silent Companions” are purchased.  In 1865 they, and a journal, are discovered in a locked room.  Some years later a damaged mute woman is encouraged by her doctor while she resides in a lunatic asylum branded a murderer, to write her story.  We get all of this in short, punchy chapters which build tension, a spooky atmosphere and fear.  The lady of the manor in 1865 is a young, pregnant widow, Elsie, whose husband owned the house.  He was preparing it for his new child to arrive when he mysteriously dies.  It is her companion, her husband’s cousin Sarah, who finds the “Silent Companions”, strange wooden cut-out figures of a girl, a gypsy boy and an old woman.  She is reading the journal of Anne from 1635 whose mute daughter, Hetta, resembles one of the wooden figures.  Sarah believes Hetta’s spirit is within the strange piece of art just looking for someone to love her.  Elsie believes otherwise.  Another “Silent Companion” appears and “someone” stops Sarah reading the second volume of Anne’s journal.  Why ….  No more spoilers, just read this haunting, compulsive and genuinely spine chilling novel, full of the unexpected.  ~ Sarah Broadhurst

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