'The Confessions Of Frannie Langton': Sara Collins' strikingly written, dark debut


The Confessions Of Frannie Langton is a debut novel and a very impressive one. But then author Sara Collins has form. After 17 years of working as a lawyer, she joined the Creative Writing Masters course at Cambridge and duly graduated with distinction, winning the Michael Holroyd prize for Recreative Writing.

Her work there led to this much-anticipated novel via a large advance from the publisher and with a television deal already wrapped up. And it made it to the 2019 Costa First Novel Award shortlist (winners will be announced on Jan 6).

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Summary:

A slave accused of murder tells her story of being born into servitude yet finding love where she least expected it, and losing it murder most foul.

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Gothic style , murder , slavery , fiction , crime

   

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