Carolyn Kirby crea ficción histórica que profundiza en las complejidades de la condición humana. Sus narrativas exploran las normas sociales y las luchas individuales con un agudo sentido del detalle. La prosa de Kirby es cautivadora y estimulante, atrayendo a los lectores a mundos meticulosamente elaborados. Su obra ofrece una perspectiva única sobre el pasado, lo que la hace resonar con el público contemporáneo.
England, 1943. Lost in fog, pilot Vee Katchatourian is forced to make an emergency landing where she meets enigmatic RAF airman Stefan Bergel, and then can't get him out of her mind. In occupied Poland, Ewa Hartman hosts German officers in her father's guest house, while secretly gathering intelligence for the Polish...
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 ?