The crimson petal and the white

Format:
book
Title:
The crimson petal and the white
Author:
Faber, Michel
Year:
2003
Language:
English
Publisher:
Edinburgh : Canongate, 2003
Description:
838 p.
Call number:
PENTA.FICTION FABE 03 (PENTA)
ISBN:
9781841954318
Subject:
Fiction
Summary:
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.
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