-- 'A heroine for our times' Elizabeth Day
The confessions of frannie langton: a Novel
✍ Scribed by Sara Collins
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 212 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0062851896
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✦ Synopsis
"A stunning debut. . . . I love this book." -Guardian
"Reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace **. . . [a] devious, richly detailed debut." -**O: The Oprah Magazine
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.
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