The Confessions of Frannie Langton
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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. 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?
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Dark, thoughtful, snapshot of Britain's relationship to slavery wrapped in an “onion” mystery of what really happened leading up to the double murder.
I can't quite express how I feel about this novel, at the moment. I will give four words, disgusted, fetishization, complicity, and perseverance (both I and the protagonist). It was challenging to finish this book. I found myself at points, procrastinating, as not to read this book.
It was... interesting. I really don't know what to think about it.
What was horrible was truly horrible.
What Langdon did with Candide was horrible, the discussion about black people after that... blood curdling.
I wrote on Facebook: “When I read Fantasy and horrible things happen, I can think that it's just the author's imagination.
But when reading historical fiction, or semi-historical, or based on history, that crap is real. It happened to someone. Probably more someones than just one. That and worse.
AND THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE STILL AROUND WHO DON'T THINK THERE'S ANYTHING HORRIBLE IN THAT.”
I'm glad she used the scissors.
Now, it got painfully slow towards the end. The trial was bothersome.
