The Confessions of Frannie Langton (Compact Disc)

The Confessions of Frannie Langton By Sara Collins (Read by), Roy McMillan (Read by), Roy MacMillan (Read by) Cover Image
By Sara Collins (Read by), Roy McMillan (Read by), Roy MacMillan (Read by)
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June 2019 Indie Next List


“Drawing on her experiences of growing up in the Cayman Islands, attending university in London, and practicing law, outstanding debut author Sara Collins has drawn a character one will not soon forget. Told with evocative language, Frannie Langton’s confession is a life story not to be missed. Raised on a sugar plantation in Jamaica, then transported to a life of servitude in London, Frannie lives a life of twists and turns of love and betrayal that will both shock and intrigue you. I was as tense as she was waiting for the verdict to be handed down. Thank you, Sara Collins!”
— Mary Mollman, Booked, Evanston, IL

Summer 2020 Reading Group Indie Next List


“This riveting page-turner is complex, unexpected, and empowered. Frannie Langton will linger in your mind two centuries after she was here. In Confessions, Collins holds a mirror to the white reader’s embedded expectations—demands, even—of black stories and black suffering. Beautifully written and powerfully told, this debut is a knockout.”
— Chorel Centers, Bookshop Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA

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A servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this astonishing historical thriller that moves from a Jamaican sugar plantation to the fetid streets of Georgian London--a remarkable literary debut 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.

The Confessions of Frannie Langton is a breathtaking debut: a murder mystery that travels across the Atlantic and through the darkest channels of history. 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.



Product Details
ISBN: 9781982656560
ISBN-10: 1982656565
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication Date: May 21st, 2019
Language: English