Michel Faber’s prose was beautiful, there were many beautiful sentences, the first chapters were amazingly narrated (more on that soon). It was exciting to start reading and before I knew I was a hundred pages in. ‘ The Crimson Petal and the White‘ is a 900-page chunkster, the longest book I’ve read this year, the longest book I’ve read in a while. One things leads to another after that and Sugar’s life is transformed beyond recognition – I won’t tell you more, you have to read the book and find out what happened, yourself. He rents out a spacious house in a nice locality and Sugar goes to live there as this rich man’s mistress. He is so enamoured by her that he signs a contract with the woman running the house to release her for a big sum of money. Sugar is a nineteen year old prostitute who lives in 1870s London. It has been on my bookshelf for years and I am glad I finally took it down and read it. I was in the mood for a thick, sprawling novel into which I’ll be able to immerse myself and so I decided to read ‘ The Crimson Petal and the White‘ by Michel Faber.
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