After Sugar discovers that she has become pregnant by William, she plans to end the pregnancy by falling down the stairs of the house. Little wonder then that she couldn't bear what she'd become a half-forgotten governess and unthanked administrator, forced to trudge meekly behind her beloved benefactor as he led grapefruit-faced snob/probable future wife Lady Constance on a VIP tour of his soap factory ("it was originally built to be a sewer works, which is ironic "). What makes the late nineteenth century such an appropriate time period for this narrative? Sugar becomes more and more attached to William and, as she comments to one of her old friends, "the world that comes with him". theyll end up in Australia, the place they were studying before Sugars departure. "I have no further need for you. She provides a standout performance in this compelling miniseries about Victorian sexual mores. There is a new book out by Michael Faber called The Apple which is short Crimson Petal stories telling you what happens to a few of the characters - except Agnes - could he be saving this for a whole new book perhaps?? There was the superb acting, not least from Amanda Hale as the porcelain-fragile Agnes a role that could so easily have dissolved into a collection of mad-bird-in-the-attic cliches. In the TV series you saw her cutting her hair really short before Sugar sent her on her way. It is forbidden to copy anything for publication elsewhere without written permission from the copyright holder. William dismisses Sugar from the household in a letter. Episode #1.1: Directed by Marc Munden. Simply it was in a list of suggested topics that one can find at the bottom of the page and it caught my eye as I am familiar with it. Sep 2002, 848 pages The Crimson Petal and the White: episode three. [/spoiler]. It's Me, Margaret' Streaming on HBO Max or Netflix? 'Citadel' Episode Guide: When Do New Episodes Premiere on Prime Video? To behold a volume the size of THE CRIMSON PETAL AND THE WHITE may appear a daunting challenge, especially recalling Dickens' sagas of a few years earlier. In Victorian London, William Rackham is the heir to a perfume business and has a mentally ill wife, Agnes, who is confined to her home. It has an amazing cast and is as watchable as the book is readable. In any other context, with any other actor, wed be complaining the character that Shirley Henderson plays is a Plot Device whose sole purpose is to move the story of the other characters along. This is just some of the unsettling things that happen in this film while we viewers cannot turn away from the train wreck that is coming. Sugar certainly had enough money saved up to do so. Despite his dreams to become a renowned writer, he has no talent for it, and his father decides to cut his allowance until William starts working seriously in the company. Reviews | After three weeks of relatively steady misery, here was a conclusion that gathered up all assumptions . I think William and the Lady he was starting to court eventually get married. MICHEL FABER has written eight books, including the highly acclaimed. Stream It or Skip It: 'A Pinch of Portugal' on Hallmark, Where Heather Hemmens Accidentally Goes from Prep Chef to Celeb Chef, Stream It Or Skip It: Kiss, Kiss! on Netflix, a Polish Rom-Com With an Oogy Womanizer Protagonist. Read the sequel The Apple. Tragic, gritty, sad, depressing and dark but you know who you are rooting for. Not the happy ending people want. Or ooh, thematic tie in! As she transforms from being William's evening entertainment to kept woman to lover and beyond, she writes a pulpy novel about a woman attaining bloody revenge against the men who have wronged her.