\'Deep-diving and elegant . \'A dazzling page-turner\' Emma Donoghue \'A star in the making\' Sunday Times \'Gothic fiction made brand new\' Stef Penney \'Stunning\' Guardian \'Spectacular\' Natasha Pulley \'Dazzlingly original\' The Times \'A heroine for our times\' Elizabeth Day.
But through her fevered confessions, one burning question haunts Frannie Langton: could she have murdered the only person she ever loved? A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE MONTH A beautiful and 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 back alleys, into the enthralling heart of Georgian London.
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.
For the first time Frannie must tell her story.
But they are not the whole truth.
And they may be the truth.
The testimonies against her are damning - slave, whore, seductress.
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.
But how can I confess what I don\'t believe I\'ve done?\' 1826, and all of London is in a frenzy.
Wide Sargasso Sea meets Beloved meets Alias Grace\' Margaret Atwood THE \'DAZZLINGLY ORIGINAL\' DEBUT NOVEL BY A NEW LITERARY STAR \'They say I must be put to death for what happened to Madame, and they want me to confess. . . \'Deep-diving and elegant
