The Confessions of Frannie Langton
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The Costa Book Awards First Novel Winner 2019
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Sara Collins
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Sara Collins (Read by)
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Roy McMillan (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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Sara Collins takes the gothic genre by the scruff of the neck...a triumph of powerful characterisation melded with suspenseful plotting while also breaking new ground in subverting a familiar genre
Bernadine Evaristo, The Guardian Best Books of 2019
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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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Original and evocative . . . vivid characters, lush settings, a captivating heroine and an intelligent, unsentimental analysis of her tragic history
Irish Times
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One of those page-turners that require a good long weekend to savour it. It's brilliantly written, very funny in parts, sexy, clever and a book that will keep you guessing until the end
Kit de Waal, Irish Times Books of the Year 2019
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This book is the full package - we all loved it
Costa Judges
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A fantastically assured piece of historical gothic
The Guardian Best Fiction of 2019
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Collins has created in her title character a complex, melancholy, and trenchantly observant protagonist; too conflicted in motivation, perhaps, to be considered a heroine but as dynamic and compelling as any character conceived by a Brontë sister. Collins invokes both Voltaire and Defoe here, and she forges an unlikely but sadly harmonic connection with both these enlightenment heroes in her gripping, groundbreaking debut.
Kirkus
