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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

Tipping The Velvet

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From the oyster huts of Whitstable to the music halls of Victorian London, Tipping the Velvet is the glorious first... Read more

    Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
    Publication Date: 1/16/2024
    ISBN13: 9780349018485, 978-0349018485
    ISBN10: 349018480

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

    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

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