Short-listed for the Crimefest/Specsavers Debut Crime Fiction Award 2020
Longlisted for the Historical Writers Association (HWA) Debut Crown award 2019
To believe in her future, she must uncover her past...With the power and intrigue of Jessie Burton's The Silent Companions and Sarah Schmidt's See What I Have Done, Carolyn Kirby's stunning debut takes the reader on a heart-breaking journey through Victorian Birmingham and questions where we first learn violence: from our scars or from our hearts.
Birmingham 1885
Born in a gaol and raised in a workhouse, Cora Burns has always struggled to control the violence inside her.
Haunted by memories of a terrible crime, she seeks a new life working as a servant in the house of scientist Thomas Jerwood. Here, Cora befriends a young girl, Violet, who seems to be the subject of a living experiment. But is Jerwood also secretly studying Cora...?
- ISBN10 0857302949
- ISBN13 9780857302946
- Publish Date 21 March 2019 (first published 19 March 2019)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Oldcastle Books Ltd
- Imprint No Exit Press
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 336
- Language English
- URL https://noexit.co.uk