The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

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Book name:	The Crimson Petal and the White (2024)
Category:	Historical Fiction
Author:	Michel Faber
Pages:	922 pages
ISBN13:	1841954314
ISBN:	1841954314
Language:	English
Publication data:	Jan. 1, 2003, 8 a.m.

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.

About the author

Michel Faber

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Michel Faber (born 13 April 1960) is a Dutch writer of English-language fiction.

Faber was born in The Hague, The Netherlands. He and his parents emigrated to Australia in 1967. He attended primary and secondary school in the Melbourne suburbs of Boronia and Bayswater, then attended the University of Melbourne, studying Dutch, philosophy, rhetoric, English language (a course involving translation and criticism of Anglo-Saxon and Middle English texts) and English literature. He graduated in 1980.… Read more