TY  - BOOK
AU  - Purcell,Laura
TI  - The house of whispers
SN  - 9780143135531
PY  - 2020///
CY  - [New York]
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Tuberculosis
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Human experimentation in medicine
KW  - Fairies
KW  - Superstition
KW  - Horror fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Gothic fiction
N1  - "A Novel"--Cover; "First published in Great Britain as Bone China by Raven Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019"--Title page verso
N2  - "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 disease in the caves 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 arrives at Morvoren House to take up a position as nurse to the now partially paralyzed and mute Miss Pinecroft. Hester has fled to Cornwall to try to escape her past, but surrounded by superstitious staff enacting bizarre rituals, she soon discovers her new home may be just as dangerous as her last."--Publisher
ER  -