![]() There was quite a lot of gore which stood out to me as not really needed. I thought I didn’t find it particularly scary, until one night I dreamt about a house with moving figures coming to get me … so it must have got to my subconscious at least! I found the characters well rounded, even the more minor ones. It was easy to read and the writer captured the atmosphere well. I’m not usually that into ghost stories, but I really enjoyed this book. Something … The angle of his face … She shook the thought off. He was taunting her, daring her to notice a change. ![]() He regarded her haughtily, staring to his left. ![]() ![]() There was something different about the boy, but she could not place her finger on it. "Both companions stood beside the fireplace. Mile after mile and the scenery did not change. "Outside the sky was iron grey, the monotony broken only by crows. ![]() This storyline is interspersed with another, set almost 200 years earlier, where we find out how the silent companions first came to the house, and why they seem to be alive. Behind a locked door she finds a painted wooden figure, a silent companion, which looks uncannily like herself, and even more disturbing is when the companion’s eyes move. With only her husband’s cousin and a few resentful servants for company – oh, and a cat, don’t forget the cat! – she must try to live in this isolated place where, before long, strange things start occurring. Widow, Elsie Bainbridge, arrives at her late husband’s country estate, The Bridge. ![]()
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