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Bone China

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內容簡介 結核病讓Pinecroft一家嘗盡悲痛，折磨這家的女主人和孩子們，讓Louise和她的父親傷心不已，但Louise的父親不願向這個棘手的疾病低頭，暗自企劃了一個復仇計畫，他深信海風是可以治療結核病。 因此他帶來了一群同樣患有結核病的罪犯們，讓他們住在Pinecroft家靠海宅邸的懸崖邊，開始了一連串爭議不斷地醫學實驗。在父親瘋狂投入實驗的同時，孤單的Louise只能和侍女相伴度日，侍女們說起一個傳說，據說這附近會出現精靈，在這片土地上搜尋可以竊取並且帶回他們國度的人，Louise不知為何卻因這個傳說感到不安。 40年後，為了逃離過去有個新的開始，Hester Why抵達了Pinecroft的宅邸，他即將成為半癱瘓、幾乎全聾的Pinecroft家小姐的看護，但這間宅邸的傭僕們卻相當迷信，總是進行這一些奇怪的儀式，漸漸地，Hester覺得，這些宅邸和她的過去似乎一樣危險。 Consumption has ravaged Louise Pinecroft's family, leaving her and her father alone and heartbroken. But Dr Pinecroft has plans for a revolutionary experiment: convinced that sea air will prove to be the cure his wife and children needed, he arranges to house a group of prisoners suffering from the same disease in the cliffs beneath his new Cornish home. While he devotes himself to his controversial medical trials, Louise finds herself increasingly discomfited by the strange tales her new maid tells of the fairies that hunt the land, searching for those they can steal away to their realm. Forty years later, Hester Why arrives at Morvoren House to take up a position as nurse to the now partially paralysed and almost entirely mute Miss Pinecroft. Hester has fled to Cornwall to try and escape her past, but surrounded by superstitious staff enacting bizarre rituals, she soon discovers that her new home may be just as dangerous as her last.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Laura PurcellLaura 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 won the WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award 2018 and featured in both the Zoe Ball and Radio 2 Book Clubs. Other Gothic novels include THE CORSET (US title THE POISON THREAD), BONE CHINA and THE SHAPE OF DARKNESS (2020)

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