Description

Meet Sugar, a nineteen-year-old prostitute in nineteenth-century London who yearns for escape to a much better existence. In the brothel of the terrifying Mrs. Castaway, she begins her ascent through society, achieving a number of lovable, maddening, unforgettable characters on the road. They start with William Rackham, an egotistical perfume magnate whose kingdom is fueled by his lust for Sugar; his unhinged, child-like wife Agnes; his mysteriously hidden-away daughter, Sophie; and his pious brother Henry, foiled in his devotional calling by a persistently less-than-chaste love for the Widow Fox.