{"product_id":"house-of-splinters","title":"House of Splinters","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe outstanding new haunted house story from Sunday Times bestseller and multi-award winner, Laura Purcell, author of\u003cem\u003e The Silent Companions\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNot every house is a home... \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBelinda Bainbridge has spent her life in the shadow of her anxious mother, so when her father-in-law dies at The Bridge, his remote ancestral seat, she is secretly thrilled.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis death means she, her husband Wilfred and their children can relocate and finally begin to create their new happy home together: born a merchant's daughter, she will now be lady of the manor. But their new home quickly proves far from ideal. The garden is a wilderness, the estate is struggling financially, and there are whispers about the mysterious death of a servant many years before while their young son, Freddy, seems unusually fixated on the strange wooden figures – so-called silent companions – that were once owned by his ancestors.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Wilfred's charismatic brother, Nathan, arrives unexpectedly from abroad, bringing a very different account of the family's past, Belinda begins to question what her husband has told her. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat really lies behind the sad history of the house? And are Belinda's children truly safe here? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Laura Purcell really is a master of the unsettling ghost story\", Jen Williams\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Laura Purcell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54785407549779,"sku":"9781526627254","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1071\/6997\/2563\/files\/9781526627254.jpg?v=1789844635","url":"https:\/\/www.vanitaspress.co.uk\/products\/house-of-splinters","provider":"Vanitas Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}