Penguin presents the audiobook model of The Confessions of Frannie Langton, written and browse by Sara Collins.

They say I have to 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 carried out?

1826, and most of London is in a frenzy. Crowds collect at the gates of the Old Bailey to view as Frannie Langton, maid to Mr and Mrs Benham, goes on trial for his or her murder. The testimonies against her are damning – slave, whore, seductress. And they may be the reality. But they aren’t the complete truth.

For the first time Frannie have to tell her story. It starts with a girl learning to continue reading a plantation in Jamaica, and it leads to a grand home in London, where a gorgeous woman waits to become freed.

But through her fevered confessions, one burning up query haunts Frannie Langton: could she have murdered the only person she ever loved?