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The Crimson Petal and the White is a 2011 four part television serial, adapted from Michel Faber 's 2002 novel The Crimson Petal and the White. Starring Romola Garai as Sugar and Chris O'Dowd as William Rackham, the drama aired in the UK during April 2011 on BBC Two.
The Crimson Petal and the White: With Romola Garai, Chris O'Dowd, Amanda Hale, Shirley Henderson. Set in 1870s London, a young prostitute finds potential power and status after becoming the mistress of a powerful patriarch.
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The Crimson Petal and the White is a 2002 novel by Michel Faber set in Victorian England. 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."
By genre: Drama > Psychological. Drama > Thriller. Unspun World with John Simpson. Intimate psychological thriller lifting the lid on the darker side of Victorian London.
The Crimson Petal and the White. Season 1. This BBC series based on the bestseller reveals a gritty, dark, Victorian England. Sugar, a prostitute, uses her ample charms to woo William Rackham, whose wife is slowly going mad. As their lives intertwine, events occur that will change them forever.
In the violent world of 1874 London Sugar is a spirited prostitute in the brothel of grasping Mrs. Castaway. After her friend Elizabeth dies from injuries inflicted by two drunken clients Sugar starts writing a book to expose Mrs. Castaway's customers.
