![]() Gray begins London’s Shadows by stating that he is neither a Ripperologist nor does he intend to contribute to this already vast body of work. Set in 1875, the fictional Sugar exists in a world that has not yet witnessed the brutality and depravity of Jack the Ripper – the focal point of London’s Shadows by Drew Gray – the second book of this review. Forced into prostitution at the tender age of 13, Sugar plies her trade at Mrs Castaway’s, a brothel in the St Giles area of London. Meet Sugar, a 19-year-old prostitute and protagonist of Michel Faber’s novel, The Crimson Petal and the White. ‘I am what you would call a Fallen Woman, but I assure you I did not fall – I was pushed’ (Faber, p. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber London’s Shadows: The Dark Side of the Victorian City by Drew D. ![]()
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