Carolyn Kirby crea narrativa storica che approfondisce le complessità della condizione umana. Le sue narrazioni esplorano le norme sociali e le lotte individuali con un occhio attento ai dettagli. La prosa di Kirby è sia coinvolgente che stimolante, attirando i lettori in mondi meticolosamente realizzati. Il suo lavoro offre una prospettiva unica sul passato, facendolo risuonare con il pubblico contemporaneo.
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 ?