'Deep-diving and elegant' Margaret Atwood 'Takes the gothic genre by the scruff of the neck' Bernadine Evaristo ----- '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? 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. WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS FIRST NOVEL PRIZE 2019 SHORLISTED FOR HWA DEBUT CROWN 2020 WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE MONTH ----- 'A dazzling page-turner' Emma Donoghue 'A star in the making' Sunday Times 'Gothic fiction made brand new' Stef Penney 'Dazzlingly original' The Times 'A heroine for our times' Elizabeth Day