The phrase "a confession in a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific context or situation where someone is admitting something, often in a narrative or descriptive manner.
Example: "In the novel, the protagonist makes a confession in a moment of vulnerability, revealing their deepest secrets."
Alternatives: "an admission in a" or "a revelation in a".
The title of the play refers to a confession in a letter (or by inference, in a work of art) that is embarrassing, even frightening, to the writer.
Surely a confession in a diner is not the most solid move he could have pulled ("remember to uh, state your name and the date before you start").
Mr. Rubio also expressed concern over Judge Thomas's decision to keep out a confession in a murder case involving five defendants in which a young woman was raped and shot to death, and her boyfriend left for dead.
She says she signed a confession in a language she could not understand - Sinhala - but the torture and rape went on for 20 days before a relative could find her and pay a bribe for her release.
"I bring you a confession in a capital murder case, and you tell me you don't believe it?" Jeff asked, clearly annoyed.
A prosecutor at Guantanamo told us how he had a question of conscience while prosecuting an illiterate juvenile who had allegedly signed a confession in a language he did not speak.
Phillip Garrido is also said to have made a confession in an attempt to assist her bid for leniency.
— Cristen Chinea, a senior at M.I.T., made a confession in her blog on the college Web site.
But even though there was a confession in the Kume disappearance by a North Korean man arrested for espionage in Japan, Pyongyang has denied any knowledge of that case.
A novel in the guise of a confession, it was taken by hundreds of thousands of American readers as a confession in the guise of a novel: Portnoy became an immediate bestseller.
Or maybe we spoke too soon, the story in chapter eight being a confession in epistolary form, confiding in A Letter To Elise (the Cure) an inability to maintain a pledge … She's probably better off without him.
