Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

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

Series:Virago V S.
Format:Paperback / softback 480 pages
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Virago Press Ltd
ISBN:9780349018485
Published:16 May 2024
Classifications:Of specific Lesbian interest, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction
Weight:376g
Dimensions:128 x 198 x 34 (mm)