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Novel by Michael Faber, set in Victorian London and published in 2002. What Dickens would have written if Dickens was alive today, according to a review. Made into a three episode BBC drama in 2011.
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Mrs Castaway, {{spoiler|to Sugar}}, in spades. Mirrored in the case of Sophie, as her mother is incapable of caring about her and her father is vaguely apathetic.
* [[Adaptational Attractiveness]]: Averted. Henry in the novel is described as good looking and physically impressive, if a little solemn and intellectual, celibate and very religious, and in (requited) love with Mrs Fox. In the adaption, he's a good deal less attractive, and portrayed mainly as a sexually frustrated fool. Played straight with Mrs Fox, {{spoiler|whose initial looks don't change, but ends the story in a lot better shape than she does in the novel}}.
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* [[Character Exaggeration]]: Henry in the adaptation. See above.
* [[Christianity Is Catholic]]: Agnes holds this view. Averted, however, with Henry Rackham, Mrs Fox and the Rescue Society.
* [[Compressed Adaptation]]: The BBC series is quite faithful to the spirit of the original while missing or summarising superflous events, and the only real differences are in the [[Two Lines, No Waiting|character arcs]] of Henry Rackham and Mrs Fox
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* [[Decoy Protagonist]]: Caroline
* [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]]: A major element of the plot.
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* [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|A significant difference from the novel is that while all the events are the same, the novel ends ambiguously with the sense that everything will end badly, while the TV series ends ambiguously with the possibility of things turning out well.}}
* [[Hair of Gold]]: Agnes. Lampshaded by the author when he points out this is part of what makes her the idealised High Victorian beauty.
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* [[Laughing Mad]]: Agnes, several times.
* [[Literary Allusion Title]]: From Tennyson's poem 'Now sleeps the crimson petal'. The two main characters are a redhead, and a blonde always clad in white.
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