num_pages: 922
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Crimson Petal and the White
titlecomplete: The Crimson Petal and the White
characters: Caroline (The Crimson Petal and the White), Sophie Rackham, Sugar, William Rackham, Agnes Rackham, Henry Rackham, Emmeline Fox
genres: Historical, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Victorian, Adult, British Literature, Romance, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 43098
places: England, London, England
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Premio letterario Giuseppe Acerbi
publisher: Canongate Books