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Author:

Purcell, Laura, author.

Title:

The house of whispers / Laura Purcell.

Publisher:

Penguin Books,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

318 pages ; 20 cm

Subject:

Tuberculosis--Fiction.
Human experimentation in medicine--Fiction.
Fairies--Fiction.
Superstition--Fiction.

Notes:

"A Novel"--Cover. "First published in Great Britain as Bone China by Raven Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019"--Title page verso.

Summary:

"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.

ISBN:

0143135538
9780143135531

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1148387737

Locations:

BRPD251 -- Adel Public Library (Adel)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

EAPA384 -- Beaman Community Memorial Library (Beaman)

AFPD266 -- Bloomfield Public Library (Bloomfield)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

DBPE173 -- Clear Lake Public Library (Clear Lake)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

SIPD314 -- James Kennedy Public Library (Dyersville)

KJPF566 -- Fort Madison Public Library (Fort Madison)

KAPF566 -- Keokuk Public Library (Keokuk)