The Confessions of Frannie Langton: The Costa Book Awards First Novel Winner 2019: The Costa Book Awards 2019
Autor Sara Collinsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 iul 2019
'Deep-diving and elegant . . .Wide Sargasso SeameetsBelovedmeetsAlias Grace'Margaret Atwood
THE 'DAZZLINGLY ORIGINAL' DEBUT NOVEL BY A NEW LITERARY STAR'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 WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE MONTH
A beautiful and haunting tale about one woman's fight to tell her story,The Confessions of Frannie Langtonleads you through laudanum-laced dressing rooms and dark-as-night back alleys, into the enthralling heart of Georgian London.
'A dazzling page-turner'Emma Donoghue
'A star in the making'Sunday Times
'Gothic fiction made brand new'Stef Penney
'Stunning'Guardian
'Spectacular'Natasha Pulley
'Dazzlingly original'The Times
'A heroine for our times'Elizabeth Day
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241984017
ISBN-10: 0241984017
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Seria The Costa Book Awards 2019
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241984017
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Seria The Costa Book Awards 2019
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Sara Collins studied law at the London School of Economics and worked as a lawyer for seventeen years. In 2014 she embarked upon the Creative Writing Masters at Cambridge University, where she won the 2015 Michael Holroyd Prize of Re-creative Writing and was shortlisted for the 2016 Lucy Cavendish Prize for a book inspired by her love of gothic fiction. This turned into her first novel, The Confessions of Frannie Langton.
Recenzii
A
powerful
meditation
on
slavery,
racism
and
autonomy
Wide Sargasso SeameetsBelovedmeetsAlias Grace . . .deep-diving, elegant
Sara Collinstakes the gothic genre by the scruff of the neck...a triumph of powerful characterisationmelded withsuspenseful plottingwhile also breaking new ground in subverting a familiar genre
Frannie Langton isan unforgettable heroine, one who boldly reclaims her narrative within the context of a history that seeks to silence her. The Confessions of Fannie Langton is gorgeous-Gothic writing at its very best
A seductive and entrancing read, with captivating historical detail...The Confessions of Frannie Langton is an extremely powerful book that resonates long after the final page has been turned.
An impressive debut, dazzlingly original
Bold and powerful
With echoes of Jean Rhys'sWide Sargasso Seaand Sara Waters'sThe Paying Guests, this is an accomplished debut novel that perfectly captures the atmosphere of Georgian London andgives voice to a singular and unforgettable heroine
'I usually pick proofs up, read the blurb, maybe read a few pages... and that is usually that. This time,I started reading it - and then I couldn't stop.Sara Collins has created atough, fiery, vividly alivecharacter.Beautifully written, in crisp and careful prose;but more than that, it comes across as a story that's been waiting to be written for a very long time...[Collins] has picked up the tradition of gothic fiction and made it brand new.'
By turnslush, gritty, wry, gothic and compulsive,The Confessions of Frannie Langtonisa dazzling page turner.With as much psychological savvy as righteous wrath, Sara Collins twists together the slave narrative, bildungsroman, love story and crime novel to make something new.'
A book of heart, soul and guts...beautifully written, lushly evocative, and righteously furious.Frannie might be a 19th century character, but she is also a heroine for our times
Original and evocative. . . vivid characters, lush settings,a captivating heroineand an intelligent, unsentimental analysis of her tragic history
I loved this novel.A literary page-turner, an engrossing murder mystery, and a deep meditation on freedom, choice, and what it means to have a voice, Sara Collins' writing is as seductive as it is elusive - just like Frannie Langton herself. For all its horrors, I could have dallied in this opium-addled world with Frannie endlessly, another addict, hooked on Collins' words.
One of thosepage-turners that require a good long weekend to savour it. It'sbrilliantly written,very funny in parts,sexy,cleveranda book that will keep you guessing until the end
I loved it...Not only a good read butan important book, reminding us of both how far the world has come and how little it has changed. I was gripped, amused, and saddened.I ate Sara Collins' words up as though they were the sugar, or laudanum, that she writes about so evocatively. It's a glory of a book.
An accomplished and powerful debut [that]recalls the best of Sarah Waters...Collins's crisp, precise prose and simmering atmosphere of danger are as seductive as her protagonist...I cannot recommend highly enough
What anextraordinary, exhilarating and fiercely intelligentbook. I loved Frannie and she felt so very real and alive to me
Frannie's voice is compelling:tender and furious and wholly deserving of attention
A spectacular, dark novel, with elements ofJane EyreandParadise Lost. . .Just like all really good Gothic stories, it keeps you balancing right on the edge of not wanting to look, but feeling like you can't look away. . . An absolute gem that points at you and asks whether it might be a sign of horrifying privilege, to enjoy a genre devoted to the grotesque.
This book is the full package - we all loved it
Afantastically assuredpiece of historical gothic
Frannie Langton isa unique literary creationin this pitch-perfect gothic novel: a Jamaican former slave who is both the heart and heroine of the story.I loved this moving, beguiling, gorgeously-written book
Collins has created in her title character a complex, melancholy, and trenchantly observant protagonist; too conflicted in motivation, perhaps, to be considered a heroine butas dynamic and compelling as any character conceived by a Brontë sister. Collins invokes both Voltaire and Defoe here, and she forges an unlikely but sadly harmonic connection with both these enlightenment heroes in hergripping, groundbreaking debut.
Sweeping and addictive...Collins has created an epic tale that'll make fortotal book club joy. Prepare to pass it on to friend after friend
Frannie Langton shows us a world of men doing their utmost to make her a monster - but she is defiantly, thoughtfully human, her urgent words holding a mirror up to others' misdeeds, and her own.Sara Collins' writing moves with subtle energy, fleshing outa 19th-century world of plantations and London bawdy-houses that feels as real as the palm of your hand
A stunning debut...the old gothic soaksThe Confessions of Frannie Langtonso richly that fumes come off it . . .That's why I love this book. Collins hasn't just written an authentic gothic novel: she rugby tackles the notion of the saintly girl who emerges from suffering rather improved by it... Between her historical research, Frannie's voice and a plot that never slows to a walk,the novel pulls the gothic into new territory and links it back to its origins. It points at the reader and asks whether it might be a sign of atrocious privilege to enjoy a genre devoted to the grotesque - especially when the grotesquerie comes from things that might plausibly have happened in the name of science and sugar money
Wide Sargasso SeameetsBelovedmeetsAlias Grace . . .deep-diving, elegant
Sara Collinstakes the gothic genre by the scruff of the neck...a triumph of powerful characterisationmelded withsuspenseful plottingwhile also breaking new ground in subverting a familiar genre
Frannie Langton isan unforgettable heroine, one who boldly reclaims her narrative within the context of a history that seeks to silence her. The Confessions of Fannie Langton is gorgeous-Gothic writing at its very best
A seductive and entrancing read, with captivating historical detail...The Confessions of Frannie Langton is an extremely powerful book that resonates long after the final page has been turned.
An impressive debut, dazzlingly original
Bold and powerful
With echoes of Jean Rhys'sWide Sargasso Seaand Sara Waters'sThe Paying Guests, this is an accomplished debut novel that perfectly captures the atmosphere of Georgian London andgives voice to a singular and unforgettable heroine
'I usually pick proofs up, read the blurb, maybe read a few pages... and that is usually that. This time,I started reading it - and then I couldn't stop.Sara Collins has created atough, fiery, vividly alivecharacter.Beautifully written, in crisp and careful prose;but more than that, it comes across as a story that's been waiting to be written for a very long time...[Collins] has picked up the tradition of gothic fiction and made it brand new.'
By turnslush, gritty, wry, gothic and compulsive,The Confessions of Frannie Langtonisa dazzling page turner.With as much psychological savvy as righteous wrath, Sara Collins twists together the slave narrative, bildungsroman, love story and crime novel to make something new.'
A book of heart, soul and guts...beautifully written, lushly evocative, and righteously furious.Frannie might be a 19th century character, but she is also a heroine for our times
Original and evocative. . . vivid characters, lush settings,a captivating heroineand an intelligent, unsentimental analysis of her tragic history
I loved this novel.A literary page-turner, an engrossing murder mystery, and a deep meditation on freedom, choice, and what it means to have a voice, Sara Collins' writing is as seductive as it is elusive - just like Frannie Langton herself. For all its horrors, I could have dallied in this opium-addled world with Frannie endlessly, another addict, hooked on Collins' words.
One of thosepage-turners that require a good long weekend to savour it. It'sbrilliantly written,very funny in parts,sexy,cleveranda book that will keep you guessing until the end
I loved it...Not only a good read butan important book, reminding us of both how far the world has come and how little it has changed. I was gripped, amused, and saddened.I ate Sara Collins' words up as though they were the sugar, or laudanum, that she writes about so evocatively. It's a glory of a book.
An accomplished and powerful debut [that]recalls the best of Sarah Waters...Collins's crisp, precise prose and simmering atmosphere of danger are as seductive as her protagonist...I cannot recommend highly enough
What anextraordinary, exhilarating and fiercely intelligentbook. I loved Frannie and she felt so very real and alive to me
Frannie's voice is compelling:tender and furious and wholly deserving of attention
A spectacular, dark novel, with elements ofJane EyreandParadise Lost. . .Just like all really good Gothic stories, it keeps you balancing right on the edge of not wanting to look, but feeling like you can't look away. . . An absolute gem that points at you and asks whether it might be a sign of horrifying privilege, to enjoy a genre devoted to the grotesque.
This book is the full package - we all loved it
Afantastically assuredpiece of historical gothic
Frannie Langton isa unique literary creationin this pitch-perfect gothic novel: a Jamaican former slave who is both the heart and heroine of the story.I loved this moving, beguiling, gorgeously-written book
Collins has created in her title character a complex, melancholy, and trenchantly observant protagonist; too conflicted in motivation, perhaps, to be considered a heroine butas dynamic and compelling as any character conceived by a Brontë sister. Collins invokes both Voltaire and Defoe here, and she forges an unlikely but sadly harmonic connection with both these enlightenment heroes in hergripping, groundbreaking debut.
Sweeping and addictive...Collins has created an epic tale that'll make fortotal book club joy. Prepare to pass it on to friend after friend
Frannie Langton shows us a world of men doing their utmost to make her a monster - but she is defiantly, thoughtfully human, her urgent words holding a mirror up to others' misdeeds, and her own.Sara Collins' writing moves with subtle energy, fleshing outa 19th-century world of plantations and London bawdy-houses that feels as real as the palm of your hand
A stunning debut...the old gothic soaksThe Confessions of Frannie Langtonso richly that fumes come off it . . .That's why I love this book. Collins hasn't just written an authentic gothic novel: she rugby tackles the notion of the saintly girl who emerges from suffering rather improved by it... Between her historical research, Frannie's voice and a plot that never slows to a walk,the novel pulls the gothic into new territory and links it back to its origins. It points at the reader and asks whether it might be a sign of atrocious privilege to enjoy a genre devoted to the grotesque - especially when the grotesquerie comes from things that might plausibly have happened in the name of science and sugar money
Descriere
'Deep-diving and elegant . . . Wide Sargasso Sea meets Beloved meets Alias Grace' Margaret Atwood
THE 'DAZZLINGLY ORIGINAL' DEBUT NOVEL BY A NEW LITERARY STAR
WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS FIRST NOVEL PRIZE 2019
WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE MONTH
'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 dazzling page-turner' Emma Donoghue
'A star in the making' Sunday Times
'Gothic fiction made brand new' Stef Penney
'Stunning' Guardian
'Spectacular' Natasha Pulley
'Dazzlingly original' The Times
'A heroine for our times' Elizabeth Day
Textul de pe ultima copertă
No one knows the worst thing they’re capable of until they do it. . . .
All of London is abuzz with the scandalous case of Frannie Langton, who is accused of the brutal double murder of her employers, renowned scientist George Benham and his eccentric French wife, Marguerite. Crowds pack the courtroom, eagerly following every twist, while the newspapers print lurid theories about the killings and the mysterious woman being held in the Old Bailey.
The testimonies against Frannie are damning. She is a seductress, a witch, a master manipulator, a whore. Frannie claims she cannot recall what happened that fateful evening, or how she came to be covered in the victims’ blood, even if remembering could save her life.
But she does have a tale to tell: a story of her childhood on a Jamaican plantation, her apprenticeship under a debauched scientist who stretched all bounds of ethics, and the events that brought her into the Benhams’ London home—and into a passionate and forbidden relationship.
Though her testimony may seal her conviction, the truth will unmask the perpetrators of crimes far beyond murder and indict the whole of English society itself.
The Confessions of Frannie Langton is a breathtaking debut: a murder mystery that travels across the Atlantic and through the darkest channels of history. A brilliant, searing depiction of race, class, and oppression that penetrates the skin and sears the soul, it is the story of a woman of her own making in a world that would see her unmade.
All of London is abuzz with the scandalous case of Frannie Langton, who is accused of the brutal double murder of her employers, renowned scientist George Benham and his eccentric French wife, Marguerite. Crowds pack the courtroom, eagerly following every twist, while the newspapers print lurid theories about the killings and the mysterious woman being held in the Old Bailey.
The testimonies against Frannie are damning. She is a seductress, a witch, a master manipulator, a whore. Frannie claims she cannot recall what happened that fateful evening, or how she came to be covered in the victims’ blood, even if remembering could save her life.
But she does have a tale to tell: a story of her childhood on a Jamaican plantation, her apprenticeship under a debauched scientist who stretched all bounds of ethics, and the events that brought her into the Benhams’ London home—and into a passionate and forbidden relationship.
Though her testimony may seal her conviction, the truth will unmask the perpetrators of crimes far beyond murder and indict the whole of English society itself.
The Confessions of Frannie Langton is a breathtaking debut: a murder mystery that travels across the Atlantic and through the darkest channels of history. A brilliant, searing depiction of race, class, and oppression that penetrates the skin and sears the soul, it is the story of a woman of her own making in a world that would see her unmade.