House of Splinters

by Laura Purcell Book 1 in the Silent Companions series.

First published 2025

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Decades before Elsie Bainbridge comes to The Bridge, Belinda Bainbridge moves into the remote family estate with her husband Wilfred and their children. She hopes the inheritance will finally give them security and status, but the neglected house is financially troubled and shadowed by an old servant's death. Her young son Freddy is also becoming fascinated by the unsettling wooden figures once owned by his ancestors.

When Wilfred's brother Nathan returns from abroad with a very different account of the family past, Belinda begins to question the history she has been given and the man she married. The novel returns to the world of The Silent Companions while shifting the focus to an earlier generation, using the estate's inheritance, servants and concealed scandals to deepen the history of the haunted house.