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Bone china by laura purcell6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() What happens there has consequences that echo down the years, and form the basis of local legends and myths. He brings them to the house, has them taken down into the caves, looked after by carers. ![]() To prove his controversial ideas, he undertakes an experiment, acquiring some prisoners with the disease, with his daughter, Louise helping him to manage. Dr Pinecroft becomes convinced that sea air is the key to a cure for the ravages of the disease. The servants around around are a odd lot with their superstitions and folklore about fairies, and strange rituals aimed at fending off the fairies practiced around Miss Pinecroft.įorty years ago, Louise and her father, Dr Pinecroft, lost their entire family to consumption, leaving them the only survivors, weighed down by an unbearable grief. Miss Pinecroft just stares around her, clearly disturbed in her mind in a cold room, her gaze often drawn to the fine china collection surrounding her, it is clear something is not right. However, Hester just might well have climbed out of the frying pan into the fire. ![]() She has changed her name as she arrives in Cornwall at Morvoren House to help nurse the partially paralysed, almost mute Miss Louise Pinecroft. Hester Why is running away from her post as a lady's maid in London, a situation of which we learn much more later. Laura Purcell writes another of her well written and atmospheric trademark gothic historical novels set in a isolated house, Morvoren House, on the Cornish coastline that goes back and forth in time. ![]()
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