The Crimson Petal and the White

The Crimson Petal and the White

By Michel Faber

Pages

922

Rating

3.88

Year

2002

RomanceFictionHistorical FictionHistoricalVictorianBritish Literature

Description

Sugar, 19, a prostitute in Victorian London, yearns for a better life. She rises from the brutal brothel of Mrs Castaway into society. The attentions of the self-involved perfume magnate William Rackham soon seem like love. Her social ascent attracts preening socialites, drunken journalists, untrustworthy servants, vile guttersnipes, and whores of all kinds.

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