The Confessions of Frannie Langton

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The Confessions of Frannie Langton

Author : Sara Collins

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Highlights

English

Language

NA

Edition

384

Pages

9780241349199

ISBN-13

0241349199

ISBN-10

Penguin Random House

Publisher

220 mm

Height

144 mm

Width

35 mm

Thickness

Hardcover

Binding

Description

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