![]() ![]() ![]() Gripping from the first page, this immense novel of Victorian proportions is an extraordinarily rich, intricate, intoxicating and deeply satisfying read. Although Michel Faber's stunning historical vision illuminates Sugar as a creature of her time, his compassion and insight gives her timeless and universal appeal. An award-winnin an prolific prose scriever, Faber is weel kent in Scotland fir his remarkable novel, Under the Skin set in Easter Ross. Why may we define The Crimson Petal and the White (2002) by Michel Faber as a Neo-Victorian novel Can the description of hands tell us something about. At the heart of this panoramic, multi-layered narrative is one young woman's compelling struggle to lift her body and soul out of the gutter. ![]() Her ascent through the strata of London society introduces us to a host of loveable, maddening, superbly realised characters - an egotistical perfume manufacturer, his unhinged wife, his pious brother, his hidden child, preening socialites, guttersnipes, whores for all tastes and those zealous would-be reformers of fallen women, the Rescue Society. The Crimson Petal and the White takes us back to the 1870s where Sugar, an alluring, nineteen-year-old whore, yearns for a better life. Please contact us if you have a question about this title. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Based on Michel Fabers 2003 novel of the same title, The Crimson Petal and the White is a four-hour, four-episode British television serial set in. NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. ![]()
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