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To believe in her future, she must uncover her past...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...?With the power and intrigue of Laura Purcell'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.'Carolyn Kirby is a born storyteller - a Charles Dickens for the 21st century' - Jay Neugeboren, author of Imagining Robert and The Stolen Jew'A gripping historical thriller with a...Pages of The Conviction of Cora Burns :
