Reviewers and readers everywhere have been eagerly abandoning their everyday lives for days and even weeks on end, refusing to leave Michel Faber’s vividly realized fictional world. It's hopeless to resist" ( Entertainment Weekly). One of the most talked-about novels of the year, this international bestseller gives new meaning to the term unputdownable. "Cocky and brilliant, amused and angry, is rightfully earning comparisons to observer extraordinaire Charles Dickens.
Twenty years in its conception, research, and writing, The Crimson Petal and the White is teeming with life, rich in texture and incident, with breathtakingly real characters. What truly makes the miniseries, though, are. Infatuated with Sugar, William’s patronage brings her into the circles of his family and milieu: his wife who barely overcomes chronic hysteria to make her appearances during “the Season” his mysteriously hidden-away daughter, left to the care of minions his pious brother, foiled in his devotional calling by his lust for the Widow Fox as well as preening socialites, drunken journalists, untrustworthy servants, vile guttersnipes, and whores of all stripes and persuasions. The direction, by Marc Munden, is competent, if a little slow in places, but it does correctly replicate the pace of a Victorian-esque 850-page novel. Her ascent through the strata of Victorian society begins with the egotistical perfume magnate William Rackham.
Sugar, a nineteen-year-old whore in the brothel of the terrifying Mrs. At the heart of this panoramic narrative is a young woman’s struggle to lift her body and soul out of the gutter.
A teenage prostitute ascends through the many layers of Victorian London society in this highly acclaimed “big, sexy, bravura novel” ( New York Times).
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