Unable to refuse and eternally grateful for the position of dresser to Lilith Erikson, Jennifer soon learns there's more to the situation.

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Jenny is the protagonist to the story and while I didn’t necessarily like her at the start of the book, I warmed to her the more I understood her and her past, and her character really grew and developed throughout the pages, especially alongside Lilith.She also wrote 'Roanoake Falls', a dramatic podcast for Realm, working with John Carpenter and Sandy King Carpenter. Atmospheric, gripping, absorbing – The Whispering Muse is another Gothic triumph from Laura Purcell. Christianity and the horrors of the second world war are fed into the mix, too, as the book tries – with an elusive logic typical of Sjón – to unify its disparate themes.

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It’s easy to see why she agrees to Mrs Dyer’s offer, even when her requests become increasingly immoral. As this was a cargo ship, Haraldsson was the only passenger so, at the captain’s table for meals, there were, in addition to the captain himself, five others – the first and second mates, the first engineer and the purser and a woman, whom Haraldsson assumed was the purser’s wife but later turned out to be the purser’s mistress. It's a story that got under my skin and left me feeling disturbed, as all good Gothic horror should! The story focuses on just one part of the Argonauts’ adventures – their arrival at the Island of Lemnos.Laura Purcell has a talent for writing within this genre and era and delivers in a way that many promise yet don’t quite achieve. The tension mounted perfectly and I knew bad things were about to happen but one particular scene was so grisly I gasped and disturbed my sleeping husband. Now, in 1949, Magnus has invited Haraldsson on a cruise, the maiden voyage of the MS Elizabet Jung-Olsen, going to Norway to pick up raw paper, to take to Izmir, in Turkey and thence to Soviet Georgia.