Tipping The Velvet Tipping The Velvet

Tipping The Velvet

'An unstoppable read' Independent on Sunday

    • 4.4 • 122 Ratings
    • £4.99

Publisher Description

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

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2011
3 February
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
480
Pages
PUBLISHER
Little, Brown Book Group
SIZE
1.6
MB

Customer Reviews

Lauralongstocking ,

Wow

Couldn’t put this down. Sarah Waters, thank you.

xcarlaxisxmex ,

Pure Brilliance

I have to say I'm not much of a reader but I was absolutely glued to this book! I've read it a couple of times and still can't get enough! Pure brilliance!

This game is a waste of time ,

Wonderful

An unputdownable book. Puts the TV series to shame. The detail and facts that it includes let's you almost be in 1890 London.

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