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.