Objects that inspired Audible’s collection of stories include: a trepanned skull, drilled with holes to release trapped spirits an iron scold’s bridle, used to punish “˜gossiping’ women a 19th Century fragment of tattooed skin a phrenology skull and an 18th Century wax vanitas head. Homeless Bodies and Other Stories is an original fiction podcast featuring audio-exclusive short stories from award-winning authors and Sunday Times best-sellers, inspired by objects & artefacts from Wellcome Collection’s permanent exhibition, ‘Medicine Man’, in London.Įxploring themes of otherness, humanity, history, society and belief, Homeless Bodies and Other Stories brings together a gripping collection of tales that are unsettlingly eerie and provokingly current. Laura’s story ‘Vanitas’ features in this Audible original podcast. Set in the turbulent years of the Hanoverian accession, Mistress of the Court tells the story of two remarkable women at the centre of George II’s reign. She vows to save the country for her children to inherit even if it costs her pride and her marriage. As England erupts in Jacobite riots, her family falls apart. Yet the feud between her husband and his obstinate father threatens all she has worked for. Whatever George s shortcomings, Princess Caroline is determined to make the family a success. Dare Henrietta give into his advances and anger her violent husband? Dare she refuse? But, as time passes, it becomes clear that friendship is the last thing on the hot-blooded young prince s mind.
Henrietta s beauty and intelligence soon win her the friendship of clever Princess Caroline and her mercurial husband, Prince George. She stakes everything on a new life in Hanover with its royal family, the heirs to the British throne. Orphaned and trapped in an abusive marriage, Henrietta Howard has little left to lose. But Agnes and Pearl quickly discover that instead they may have opened the door to something that they can never put back… View Book Still recovering from a serious illness herself, making enough money to support her elderly mother and her orphaned nephew Cedric has never been easy, but then one of her clients is murdered shortly after sitting for Agnes, and then another, and another…ĭesperately seeking an answer, Agnes approaches Pearl, a child spirit medium lodging in Bath with her older half-sister and her ailing father, hoping that if Pearl can make contact with those who died, they might reveal who killed them. Silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep her business afloat. Shortlisted for an Edgar Award and a Dead Good Readers’ Award.Ī struggling silhouette artist in Victorian Bath seeks out a renowned child spirit medium in order to speak to the dead – and to try and identify their killers – in this beguiling new tale from Laura Purcell. Winner of Historical Crime Book of the Year category at The Fingerprint Awards 2022.
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