Hester quickly discovers that her job is not going to be easy and soon she is asking questions of her own. We know that Hester Why is not her real name, but what is the reason for her new identity? Why is she fleeing to Cornwall from London, who is she hiding from and how did she come to be addicted to gin and laudanum? These are questions we ask ourselves in the very first chapter and they are answered eventually, but first we must follow Hester to Morvoren House, perched high on the Cornish cliffs, where she is taking up a new position as nurse to Miss Louise Pinecroft. Hester Why, the narrator of Laura Purcell’s latest gothic novel Bone China, is a woman with secrets.
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