Tipping The Velvet

From the oyster huts of Whitstable to the music halls of Victorian London, Tipping the Velvet is the glorious first novel from this much-loved author ''Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen.'' A saucy, sensuous and multi-layered historical romance, Tipping the Velvet follows the glittering career of Nan King - oyster girl turned music-hall star turned rent boy turned East End ''tom''. ''Erotic and absorbing... Written with startling power'' New York Times Book Review ''An unstoppable read, a sexy and picaresque romp through the lesbian and queer demi-monde of the roaries Nineties'' Independent on Sunday ''Waters is an extremely confident writer, combining precise, sensuous descriptions with irony and wit'' Observer

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Waters, Waters Sarah
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.04.2024
• EAN: 9780349018485
• ISBN: 978-0-349-01848-5
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 32 mm
• Series: VMC; Virago V S.
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Romance / Historical / Victorian, Relating to lesbians, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Lesbian, FICTION / Romance / LGBTQ+ / Lesbian, FICTION / Erotica / LGBTQ+ / Lesbian, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary