“Faber apparently got a lot of mail over the ending of 'The Crimson Petal and the White'.
If you've read it, you'll know why.
So much mail that he seems to have decided to pull out some old, rejected ideas he'd doodled with, and publish them in an anthology of 'short stories'.
In truth, they're more extended scenes and character studies than what your correspondent would call 'short stories', and his claim that at least one of the collection is as good as a novel is...”