A Flavour of the Book: “The corpse on the
mortuary slab. Men had forced him to
look at a body half eaten away by fish.
The face was a skull. He had
said it was Agnes. Was it Agnes? He
looks again. The face fleshes out a
little, then a little more, teasingly taking on human form in increments of
skin…”
The Authortrek View: This is a brilliant
collection of short stories inspired by the characters featured in Michel Faber’s
earlier novel The Crimson Petal and the White. The writing and the plotting are so superb that readers who have
not read the novel will also be engaged by these captivating stories. Clara
encounters the repulsive ‘Rat Man’, who has some rather peculiar fetishes, while
Sugar, enraged by petty injustices on the street, plans her escape from
prostitution, no matter who she hurts along the way… A suffragette searches for
her father’s legacy during a famous march…
Michel Faber skilfully takes the reader from a wholly convincing image
of the Victorian era to the current day.
Faber’s prose is also a delight, with never a word out of place. In addition to this, the attentive reader
will be pleased by spotting the various links between these stories. So bewitching is this book that you will
want to hunt down The Crimson Petal and the White, and the only shame
involved with plucking and eating The Apple is that it has to end.
Press Reviews: “The Apple is a
collection of seven short stories set in Victorian London that follow on from
his bestseller Crimson Petal and the White, and is just as gripping” – Elle
Magazine
“Obviously all existing fans will need no urging to dive back into Sugar’s world, but the stories deserve attention in their own right: they are each, as Faber describes them, ‘little worlds of their own’… This is fabulous stuff: gritty, original and highly entertaining. Faber is incomparable” – Waterstone’s Books Quarterly
“…this book will be read in a sitting. Unless of course you are admitted to
Accident and Emergency, having come over queer, huffing with laughter, of dizzy
with envy at Faber’s talent. Or
probably both” – Tom Adair, The Scotsman
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