Sara Collin’s award-winning novel The Confessions of Frannie Langton, the LGBTQ+ drama/mystery story of an enslaved woman taken from Bermuda to London in 1825 was envisioned as a Black Gothic romance in the Wuthering Heights style. The themes of slavery, patriarchy, feminism, and culture are front and centre. So in London, Langton is surprised to meet a free Black man called Laddie Lightning played with charm and verve by Patrick Martins. How did he become the darling of the white upper class? What She Said’ Anne Brodie spoke with Martins from London:
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