The Conviction of Cora Burns (eBook)

Carolyn Kirby (Autor)

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2019
Dzanc Books (Verlag)
978-1-950539-00-0 (ISBN)

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1880s Birmingham, England: A troubled young woman searches for her lost sister and the truth behind a grisly crime in this Victorian thriller in the style of The Essex Serpent and See What I Have Done.

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"e;Kirby writes with skill and gusto."e; --The Timesbr>London, 1885:<p>Cora Burns has always struggled to control the violence inside of her. Does this temperament come from the mother she never knew, a convict who gave birth to her in jail? Or is Cora a product of her harsh upbringing in the workhouse, where her only light was a girl named Alice Salt, so like Cora that they were almost sisters. <p>Just released from Birmingham Gaol, Cora sets out to find Alice. But her memories of Alice are hazy, entangled with the memories of a terrible crime: the murder of a little boy in the workhouse. Her sole clue is a bronze medal cut in half, engraved with the word SALT. <p>Cora finds work as a servant in the home of Thomas Jerwood, a gentleman-scientist obsessed with the study of hereditary criminality. Here Cora befriends a young girl, Violet, who seems to be the subject of a living experiment into upbringing and character. But are there two identical girls called Violet? And is Jerwood also secretly studying Cora? As the secrets of her past unravel, Cora must decide if her own scarred nature is an unalterable product of biology or if she has the strength to change. <p>With the power and intrigue of Emma Donoghue's The Wonder and Sarah Schmidt's See What I Have Done, Carolyn Kirby's debut novel delves into Victorian London's dark underbelly and the question of where we first learn violence: from our scars or from our hearts.</div>

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.3.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Schlagworte: Abandonment • Adult Fiction • American Fiction • Asylum • Bildungsroman • Birmingham • Birth • Breakout • Character • Children in literature • Christianity in fiction • Class • Coins • coming-of-age fiction • Crime • Crime Fiction • daughters in literature • dolls • dolls in literature • domesticity in literature • England • English literature • Escape • ethics in fiction • experimental fiction • experimental literature • Family • family sagas • finance in literature • Flashbacks • Forced Labor • Fragmentation • fragmented structures • Friends • Friendship • Gender • historical fiction • Hospital • Illness • Imprisonment • Incarceration • industrial England • Industrialization • infirmary • Inheritance • insanity • Labor • letters in fiction • literary fiction • Madness • media in fiction • Memory • Mental Health • Mental Illness • MONEY • mothers&daughters • mothers in literature • murder in fiction • Mystery • nature/nurture • newspapers in literature • nineteenth-century fiction • Nonlinear • nonlinear narration • Orphans • photography • Plot Twist • Pregnancy • prison fiction • prison in literature • psychiatric fiction • Psychiatry • psychology in literature • Reform • sanity • science in literature • servants • servants in literature • Servitude • siblings in literature • Sisterhood • Sisters • Suicide • Suspense • third-person narration • third-person narrators • TWINS • Twist Ending • unreliable narrators • upmarket fiction • Victorian England • vignettes • women narrators • Women’s Fiction • Women’s Literature • workhouse • working-class fiction • Work in literature
• ISBN-10: 1-950539-00-8 / 1950539008
• ISBN-13: 978-1-950539-00-0 / 9781950539000