5/25/2023 0 Comments Queen of bedlam laura purcell![]() ![]() ![]() Please note that in the USA Laura is published by Penguin Books, where The Corset is titled The Poison Thread and Bone China is called The House of Whispers. It won a silver Signal Award for Best Scripted Fiction. She recently worked as lead writer on Roanoke Falls, a Realm podcast executive produced by John Carpenter and Sandy King Carpenter. Laura's short stories have been published in a number of collections including the Sunday Times best-selling The Haunting Season. Her novels explore the lives of royal women during the Georgian era, who have largely been ignored by modern history. ![]() The Shape of Darkness won a Fingerprint Award for Historical Crime Book of the Year 2022 and was shortlisted for both an Edgar Award and a Dead Good Readers' Award. Laura Purcell recently appeared on the PBS documentary The Secrets of Henry VIII's Palace, talking about Queen Caroline's life at Hampton Court. It was selected for both the Radio 2 Book Club and Zoe Ball's ITV Book Club. The Silent Companions won the WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award in 2018 and was shortlisted for the Goldsboro Glass Bell. She began her career with two historical novels about the Hanoverian monarchs, Queen of Bedlam and Mistress of the Court before her break-out Gothic ghost story The Silent Companions. It is a time of unrest and revolutions but most of all Charlotte fears the King himself, someone she can no longer love or trust. Left alone with thirteen children and with the country at war, Charlotte has to fight to hold her husbands throne. Laura Purcell is a former bookseller living in Colchester, Essex with her husband and pet guinea pigs. The calm order of Queen Charlottes court is shattered by screams. ![]()
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