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Book Review of The Crimson Petal and the White

The Crimson Petal and the White
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Meet Sugar, a nineteen year old prostitute in Victorian London who yearns for escape to a better life. From the brothel of the terrifying Mrs. Castaway, she begins her ascent through socirty. Beginning with William Rackham,a perfume magnate whose lust for Sugar soon begins to smell like love, she meets a host of lovable,maddening,unforgettable characters as her social rise is overseen by assorted preening socialites, drunken journalists, untrustworthy servants, vile guttersnipes, and whores of all kinds.