Penguin Random House South Africa
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, International Fiction, Adult
ISBN: 9780241984017
Published: January 2020
Imprint: Penguin
Page Extent: 384
Format: Paperback
RRP 275.00
Confessions of Frannie Langton
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A haunting tale about one woman's fight to tell her story, The Confessions of Frannie Langton leads you through laudanum-laced dressing rooms and dark-as-night alleys, into the heart of Georgian London.
'Deep-diving and elegant' Margaret Atwood
'Takes the gothic genre by the scruff of the neck' Bernadine Evaristo
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'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....
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