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Tipping The Velvet
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Tipping The Velvet

by Sarah Waters

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Hardcover / ISBN-13: 9781844088195

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ON SALE: 2nd August 2012

Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945)

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‘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’.

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