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Historical Fiction2002

The Crimson Petal and the White

by Michel Faber

3.8836.9K ratings

Sugar, 19, prostitute in Victorian London, yearns for a better life. From brutal brothel-keeper Mrs Castaway, she ascends in society. Affections of self-involved perfume magnate William Rackham soon smells like love. Her social rise attracts preening socialites, drunken journalists, untrustworthy servants, vile guttersnipes, and whores of all kinds.

Publisher
Canongate Books
Genres
Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Victorian, Romance

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