![]() ![]() He marries the exquisitely doll-like Agnes, even though he barely knew her. William, the unwilling and somewhat bumbling heir to a perfume business, is a businessman of moderate success and little self-awareness. The novel details the lives of two very opposite Victorian women, Agnes and Sugar, and the linchpin on whom they revolve: 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. ![]()
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