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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 28/03/2019
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ISBN: 9780241983720
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Length: 734 Minutes
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RRP: £12.00
The Confessions of Frannie Langton
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'A dazzling page-turner' (Emma Donoghue)
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Sara Collins
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Sara Collins (Read by)
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Confessions of Frannie Langton, written and read by Sara Collins.
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?
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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 28/03/2019
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ISBN: 9780241983720
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Length: 734 Minutes
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RRP: £12.00
Reviews
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A bold and timely reinvention of the classic gothic novel ( . . .) which, with its tentative exploration of passion and transgression of boundaries, is reminiscent of the best of Sarah Waters
Observer
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Frannie Langton is an unforgettable heroine, one who boldly reclaims her narrative within the context of a history that seeks to silence her. The Confessions of Fannie Langton is gorgeous-Gothic writing at its very best
Christine Mangan, author of 'Tangerine'
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A seductive and entrancing read, with captivating historical detail...The Confessions of Frannie Langton is an extremely powerful book that resonates long after the final page has been turned.
Laura Carlin, author of 'The Wicked Cometh'
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An impressive debut, dazzlingly original
The Times
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Bold and powerful
The Sunday Times
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With echoes of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea and Sara Waters's The Paying Guests, this is an accomplished debut novel that perfectly captures the atmosphere of Georgian London and gives voice to a singular and unforgettable heroine
Red Magazine
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'I usually pick proofs up, read the blurb, maybe read a few pages... and that is usually that. This time, I started reading it - and then I couldn't stop. Sara Collins has created a tough, fiery, vividly alive character. Beautifully written, in crisp and careful prose; but more than that, it comes across as a story that's been waiting to be written for a very long time...[Collins] has picked up the tradition of gothic fiction and made it brand new.'
Stef Penney, author of 'The Tenderness of Wolves'
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By turns lush, gritty, wry, gothic and compulsive, The Confessions of Frannie Langton is a dazzling page turner. With as much psychological savvy as righteous wrath, Sara Collins twists together the slave narrative, bildungsroman, love story and crime novel to make something new.'
Emma Donoghue, author of 'Room'
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A book of heart, soul and guts...beautifully written, lushly evocative, and righteously furious. Frannie might be a 19th century character, but she is also a heroine for our times
Elizabeth Day, author of 'The Party'
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Original and evocative . . . vivid characters, lush settings, a captivating heroine and an intelligent, unsentimental analysis of her tragic history
Irish Times
