Book Review: The Conviction of Cora Burns by Carolyn Kirby

In Carolyn Kirby’s debut novel, The Conviction of Cora Burns, Cora’s buried past begins to unearth itself, and Cora must find out where we first learn violence: from our scars or from our hearts.  Victorian England is a terrible place for an impoverished woman. Cora Burns knows this firsthand. Born to a mother she knows only…