# 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: 978-18-4408-819-5
- Published: 2012-08-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

'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 set in the 'roaring' 1890s, Tipping the Velvet follows the glittering career of Nan King on her journey from Whitstable oyster-girl to music-hall star to cross-dressing rentboy to East End 'tom'.