He marries the exquisitely doll-like Agnes, even though he barely knew her. He is the unwilling and somewhat bumbling heir to a perfume business, with moderate success and little self-awareness. The novel details the lives of two very opposite Victorian women, Agnes and Sugar, who revolve on the linchpin of William Rackham. Canongate also published The Apple, a selection of short stories based on characters from The Crimson Petal and the White, in 2006. After getting some story revisions and a more hopeful ending, the novel was published (by Canongate) in hardback in the UK in 2002, with a paperback edition following the next year. Over two decades later, Faber revisited his draft. The first draft was written in 1980 using a typewriter, but Faber set the manuscript aside, feeling it was too dark. It has a meta-literary aspect, as Sugar is working on her own novel, Henry writes sermons, and Agnes keeps a diary. The title is from an 1847 poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson entitled " Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal", the opening line of which is "Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white." The novel is told from the perspective of all of the main characters, and the omniscient narrator occasionally addresses the reader directly. The Crimson Petal and the White is a 2002 novel by Michel Faber set in Victorian England.
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