At the heart of this panoramic, multidimensional narrative is the compelling struggle of a young woman to lift her body and soul out of the gutter.
It\'s hopeless to resist ( Entertainment Weekly ).. . . .
Cocky and brilliant, amused and angry, [Faber] 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.
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.
Her ascent through the strata of Victorian society begins with the egotistical perfume magnate William Rackham.
Castaway, yearns for a better life.
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.
London, 1870s.
A teenage prostitute ascends through the many layers of Victorian London society in this highly acclaimed big, sexy, bravura novel ( New York Times ).
Castaway, yearns for escape to a better life.
Faber leads readers back to 1870s London, where Sugar, a 19-year-old whore in the brothel of the terrifying Mrs.
At the heart of this panoramic, multidimensional narrative is the compelling struggle of a young woman to lift her body and soul out of the gutter
