TripFiction are making a movie!

22nd August 2019

Here’s an exciting new adventure for us at TripFiction…we’re making a short film to help promote a wonderful book with a very firm sense of place – the essence of TripFiction, transferred from the page to the camera lens!

We loved the story and setting of The Conviction of Cora Burns as soon as we read it. The debut novel from Carolyn Kirby, it takes place vividly in Victorian Birmingham. Cora is born in the gaol, and spends the first 20 years of her life moving between the prison, the workhouse and the lunatic asylum. She is offered a position as ‘Between Maid‘ at the home of scientist Thomas Jerwood, but something strange seems to be happening above stairs….

The novel deals with themes of motherhood, memory, ‘nature versus nurture’ and the birth of modern psychology, all told through engaging characters and with meticulous historical research.

Carolyn has been called ‘a born storyteller, a Charles Dickens for the 21st century‘, so after following author and characters through Birmingham, we thought: wouldn’t this make a great TripFiction film! Click here to read the blog of our location trip back in February.

With the help of film-makers Great Escapations, we have shot footage at several locations in Birmingham, combining with to-camera author interviews and also dialogue from W F Howes’ audiobook version.

The film is currently being edited and will be ready to tie in perfectly with Carolyn’s events at the Birmingham Literary Festival in October, and publication of the final paperback version by No Exit Press.

We’re excited at this new adventure for TripFiction, and hope you will be too. Stay in touch to see the film, and why not let us know which books soon to be published you think would also benefit from the TripFiction film treatment!

Andrew for the TripFiction team

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