From the author of the international bestsellers Walk in My Shoes (filmed in 2014, starring Scarlett Johansson) and The Book of Strange New Things, The Crimson Petal and the White is of epic proportions and was recently the basis for Bee's TV series of the same name. -BC (directed by Mark Munden, starring Romola Garai, Chris O'Dowd, Amanda Haigh, Bertie Carvel, Gillian Anderson). So, meet Sweetie. This nineteen-year-old “priestess of love” is able to attract clients with the most incredible requests. One day she gets hooked on William Rackham, the crown prince of a perfume empire. Their “special relationship” develops bizarrely and unpredictably - after all, people in all eras strive to act contrary to their obvious interests, ruining their own happiness with the best intentions... Michel Faber began “Petal” while still a student and over the course of twenty years he rewrote his multi-layered and multifaceted canvas three times. “This, mm, is an amazing (and amazingly - here, without any “mm” - translated) stylization of a Victorian novel... Actually, before us is something like the Victorian “Autumn Marathon”, a melodrama about how men and women themselves do each other unhappy, they love the wrong people and in the wrong way” (Lev Danilkin, “Afisha”). The book contains obscene language.