# Tipping the Velvet

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- Book: [Tipping The Velvet](https://www.bookquiver.com/sarah-waters/tipping-the-velvet) ([Tipping The Velvet.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/sarah-waters/tipping-the-velvet.md))
- Authors: [Sarah Waters](https://www.bookquiver.com/sarah-waters)
- Publisher: virago
- ISBN: 978-18-4408-011-3
- Pages: 472
- Published: 2003-01-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## 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