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From award-winning bestseller, Laura Purcell comes her YA debut, MOONSTONE, a sparkling, chilling sapphic gothic romance with real bite…
Don’t misbehave. Beware the moon. And never go out after dark . . .
Following a scandal at the Vauxhall pleasure gardens, Camille is sent to the woods to live with her reclusive godmother and her strange daughter, Lucy. Cast out from polite society, she must learn to live by her godmother’s strict rules.
Camille has never met anyone quite like Lucy before, and as they grow closer and cross forbidden boundaries, strange things begin to happen. Mysterious deaths, claw marks raking the doors, and the nights are pierced by the howls of a creature that sounds almost . . . otherworldly.
Should Camille be more afraid of what’s hiding in the woods – or her own heart?
Moonstone by Laura Purcell
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780008562823
Imprint: Magpie
Praise for Laura Purcell
PRAISE FOR THE SILENT COMPANIONS
Ghost stories are for Christmas. Some recent ones haven’t quite got it right but this is terrific. Perfect setting, great build-up, chilling. What more could you want?
― Susan Hill, author of The Woman in BlackLayering on the dark and creepy, this intriguingly plotted novel is the full-blown Gothic, maintaining throughout an unsettling claustrophobic atmosphere mixed with some unusual historical detail
― Daily MailA deliciously creepy ghost story
― Sunday Express