Bone China

Gothic fiction. Louise and her father have been left heartbroken and bereaved, their family struck down by consumption. Her father, a doctor, has plans for a radical experiment to relaunch his medical career. Forty years later Hester, fleeing London to escape her past, arrives to nurse the mistress of the house, the now partially paralysed and almost completely silent Louise. It seems she may have escaped one set of dangers only to replace them with another…