Crimson petal and the white6/5/2023 ![]() There are a number of supporting characters, and rather than the usual story of a "tart with a heart" winning her man, "Pretty Woman" style, it is the slow development of love in those characters who both crave it and think they're beyond it. The story weaves through Sugar and William meeting and her deciding to improve her lot because of William's infatuation for her. ![]() The main characters are Sugar, a much sought after prostitute with many qualities not usually found in the fallen women of fiction, and William, a typical Victorian father who thinks he is anything but typical of his class and time. The book is a narration of several intertwined people's lives over the period of about a year, the narrator being an integral part.Through these lives, a story of how love comes into the most unlikely of lives. This book is the "Marmite" of historical fiction readers/listeners will either love it or loathe it. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |