Book guide
The Silent Companions
A pregnant widow finds a wooden figure that looks exactly like her.
GenresHorror
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About The Silent Companions
Newly widowed Elsie is sent to her late husband’s crumbling estate, The Bridge, to live out her pregnancy among hostile villagers and resentful servants. Behind a locked room waits an old diary and a silent wooden companion with an uncanny resemblance to Elsie.
Reading signals
- Spice
- None
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Balanced
Content warnings
- ableism
- alcohol
- animal-abuse
- animal-death
- blood
- child-abuse
- child-murder
- death
- drugs
- emesis
- fire
- gore
- grief-loss
- miscarriage
- misogyny
- murder
- poisoning
- psychiatric-hospital
- racial-slur
- racism
- sexual-assault
- skeletons
- suicide
- incest
- child sexual abuse
