內容簡介
內容簡介 十九世紀倫敦，來自牙買加的女奴法蘭妮．朗頓在老貝利街受審，她被控謀殺主人班翰夫婦。群眾指責她浪蕩、行巫術、忘恩負義，而法蘭妮堅稱喪失了凶案當晚的記憶，但她確實有話要說：她作為奴隸度過的童年、遠渡大西洋被送進班翰家而展開的禁忌之戀、是否真的手刃最心愛的人，以及那些藏在謀殺重罪下針對種族、階級與壓迫的深沉控訴。 'Gothic and compulsive' Emma Donoghue 'Spectacular' Natasha Pulley 'A moving, beguiling, gorgeously-written book' Kate Riordan 'Powerful' Sunday Times 'Recalls the best of Sarah Waters' E C Fremantle 'Extraordinary' Cathy Rentzenbrink '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 beautiful and 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 back alleys, into the enthralling heart of Georgian London. 'A book of heart, soul and guts' Elizabeth Day 'It resonates long after the final page has been turned' Laura Carlin, the author of The Wicked Cometh 'Gothic fiction made brand new' Stef Penney, author of The Tenderness of Wolves 'Gothic writing at its very best' Christine Mangan, author of Tangerine 'Tender and furious and wholly deserving of attention' Jessie Greengrass, author of Sight 'Extraordinary, exhilarating and fiercely intelligent' Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Act of Love 'A pitch-perfect gothic novel' Kate Riordan, author of The Girl in the Photograph 'A glory of a book' Stephanie Butland, author of Letters to my Husband 'A literary page-turner' Rebecca F. John, author of The Haunting of Henry Twist 'From Charlotte Brontë through Sarah Waters, Alias Grace and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, The Confessions of Frannie Langton draws on a wealth of literary influences' Observer
