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“A blistering historical thriller.” — Entertainment Weekly
A servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this breathtaking debut that moves from a Jamaican sugar plantation to the fetid streets of Georgian London—a gripping historical thriller with echoes of Alias Grace, The Underground Railroad, and The Paying Guests.
All of London is abuzz with the scandalous case of Frannie Langton, accused of the brutal double murder of her employers, renowned scientist George Benham and his eccentric French wife, Marguerite. Crowds pack the courtroom, eagerly following every twist, while the newspapers print lurid theories about the killings and the mysterious woman being tried at the Old Bailey.
The testimonies against Frannie are damning. She is a seductress, a witch, a master manipulator, a whore.
But Frannie claims she cannot recall what happened that fateful evening, even if remembering could save her life. She doesn’t know how she came to be covered in the victims’ blood. But she does have a tale to tell: a story of her childhood on a Jamaican plantation, her apprenticeship under a debauched scientist who stretched all bounds of ethics, and the events that brought her into the Benhams’ London home—and into a passionate and forbidden relationship.
Though her testimony may seal her conviction, the truth will unmask the perpetrators of crimes far beyond murder and indict the whole of English society itself.
A brilliant, searing depiction of race, class, and oppression that penetrates the skin and sears the soul, it is the story of a woman of her own making in a world that would see her unmade.
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“A powerful portrayal of the horrors of slavery and the injustices of British society’s treatment of former slaves in the early 1800s…Both a highly suspenseful murder mystery and a vivid historical novel, but best of all is the depiction of Frannie, a complex and unforgettable protagonist. This is a great book sure to find a wide—and deserved—audience.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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“By turns lush, gritty, wry, gothic, and compulsive, The Confessions of Frannie Langton is a dazzling page-turner.”
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“Frannie’s powerful, painful recollections will haunt readers as she dredges memories twisted by abuse, violence, and drugs and tries to convince herself of Marguerite’s devotion. This dark, disquieting story may appeal to historical fiction fans with a penchant for the gothic.”
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“[A] gripping, groundbreaking debut.”
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“A heady, gothic, mad-scientist, bildungsroman, lesbian, feminist portrait of a marriage; slave narrative; and upstairs-downstairs murder-mystery and courtroom-drama smoothie.”
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“Destined to become a benchmark for historical fiction, The Confessions of Frannie Langton is at once fiercely raw and remorselessly beautiful.”
— Lyndsay Faye, author of The Gods of Gotham
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Shortlisted for the Costa Book Award for Best First Novel
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A Crime Reads Pick of Best Novels of Summer
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About Sara Collins
Sara Collins is the author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton, shortlisted for the Costa Book Award for Best First Novel. She studied law at the London School of Economics and worked as a lawyer for seventeen years. In 2014 she studied creative writing at Cambridge University, where she won the 2015 Michael Holroyd Prize of Re-creative Writing and was shortlisted for the 2016 Lucy Cavendish Prize for a book inspired by her love of gothic fiction and which turned into her first novel, The Confessions of Frannie Langton. She is of Jamaican descent and grew up in Grand Cayman.
About Sara Collins
Roy McMillan is a director, writer, actor, and an Earphones Award–winning narrator. Among his audiobook readings are Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, A Dog’s Heart by Mikhail Bulgakov, and The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx.