SARA COLLINS

FOR ITV SERIES THE CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON, former barrister Collins has adapted her award-winning debut novel that explores themes of race, class and oppression through a murder mystery. The four-parter, set against the backdrop of Georgian London, charts Frannie’s journey from Jamaican plantation to the grand Mayfair mansion of scientist George Benham and his wife Madame Marguerite Benham, where she is employed as their maid. When the Benhams are found murdered in their beds, Frannie is found lying next to Marguerite and is accused of a murder she can’t remember. Will she recall the events of that night? And if she isn’t guilty, who is?