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Laura is a masterful writer, her deliciously gothic stories so skilfully woven that you can t get them out of your head even if you wanted to Stacey Halls, author of The Familiars

The Corset is a contender for my Book of the Year. Beautifully written, intricately plotted, a masterpiece Sarah Hilary

Is prisoner Ruth Butterham mad or a murderer? Victim or villain?

Dorothea Truelove is young, wealthy and beautiful. Ruth Butterham is young, poor and awaiting trial for murder.

When Dorothea s charitable work leads her to Oakgate Prison, she finds herself drawn to Ruth, a teenage seamstress – and self-confessed murderess – who nurses a dark and uncanny secret. A secret that is leading her straight to the gallows. As Ruth reveals her disturbing past to Dorothea, the fates of these two women entwine, and with every revelation, a new layer of doubt is cast…

Can Ruth be trusted? Is she mad, or a murderer?

Laura Purcell s spine-chilling new novel, The Shape of Darkness, is out now!