Carolyn Kirby crée de la fiction historique qui explore les complexités de la condition humaine. Ses récits examinent les normes sociétales et les luttes individuelles avec un œil aiguisé pour les détails. La prose de Kirby est à la fois captivante et stimulante, entraînant les lecteurs dans des mondes méticuleusement conçus. Son travail offre une perspective unique sur le passé, la faisant résonner auprès du public contemporain.
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 ?