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'Deep-diving and elegant . . . Wide Sargasso Sea meets Beloved meets Alias Grace' Margaret Atwood
THE 'DAZZLINGLY ORIGINAL' DEBUT NOVEL BY A NEW LITERARY STAR
WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS FIRST NOVEL PRIZE 2019
WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE MONTH
'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?'
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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 held in 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.

Sie ist jung. Sie ist klug. Sie ist fremd. Sie steht unter Mordverdacht. Ein aufwühlender historischer Kriminalroman im England des 19. Jahrhunderts

London, 1826: Das Dienstmädchen Frannie Langton ist eine ungewöhnliche junge Frau, außerordentlich gebildet – und eines brutalen Doppel-Mordes angeklagt. Londons brave Bürger sind in Aufruhr: Wer ist diese ehemalige Sklavin, die aus den Kolonien nach England kam, um ihre Arbeitgeber in den eigenen Betten zu meucheln? Die Zeugenaussagen belasten Frannie schwer. Eine Verführerin sei sie, eine Hexe, eine meisterhafte Manipulatorin. Doch Frannie erzählt eine andere Version der Geschichte, ihrer Geschichte ...

»Sie sagen, ich solle sterben für das, was Madame geschehen ist, ich solle gestehen. Doch wie kann ich etwas gestehen, das ich nicht getan habe?«

Sara Collins arbeitete siebzehn Jahre lang als Anwältin, bevor sie sich ganz dem Schreiben widmete. Dieser ergreifende historische Kriminalroman ist ihr Debüt. Sind Sie bereit für Frannie Langtons Geschichte?