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The Confessions of Frannie Langton : The Costa Book Awards First Novel Winner 2019 by Sara Collins
We met this author giving a talk at "Black Girl Fest" and she was amazing in person and so we were not surprised that her novel is a wondrously unique and atmospheric tale. Wide Sargasso Sea meets Beloved meets Alias Grace' Margaret Atwood.
"Takes the gothic genre by the scruff of the neck...a triumph of powerful characterisation melded with suspenseful plotting" Bernadine Evaristo.
WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS FIRST NOVEL PRIZE 2019. 2020 WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE MONTH.
They say I must be put to death for what happened to Madame, and they want me to confess. But how can I confess what I don't believe I've done?'1826, and all of London is in a frenzy. Crowds gather at the gates of the Old Bailey to watch as Frannie Langton, maid to Mr and Mrs Benham, goes on trial for their murder.
The testimonies against her are damning - slave, whore, seductress. And they may be the truth. But they are not the whole truth.
For the first time Frannie must tell her story. It begins with a girl learning to read on a plantation in Jamaica, and it ends in a grand house in London, where a beautiful woman waits to be freed. But through her fevered confessions, one burning question haunts Frannie Langton: could she have murdered the only person she ever loved?A haunting tale about one woman's fight to tell her story, The Confessions of Frannie Langton leads you through laudanum-laced dressing rooms and dark-as-night alleys, into the heart of Georgian London.Why it's on The Cornrow?
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