The Confessions of Frannie Langton (2019)

A Jamaican plantation and a London household have both claimed the right to define Frannie. Her account of a murder accusation insists on a life that those labels leave out, including learning, desire and the uses others make of her intelligence. The Gothic mystery is dark, with slavery, racist experimentation, sexual exploitation and violence. Choose it for a servant determined to speak in her own terms, rather than an uncomplicated story of loyal service.