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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EAN: 9780349018485
UPC: 9780349018485
ISBN: 9780349018485
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Format: Paperback, 480 pages
Author: Sarah Waters
Book Title: Tipping The Velvet (VMC) (Virago V S.) by Sarah Wa
Item Height: 3.4 cm
Item Length: 19.6 cm
Item Weight: 0.38 kg
Item Width: 12.8 cm
Language: Eng
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd