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Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction

Tipping The Velvet

Sarah Waters (author)

Hardback Published on: 02/08/2012

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Tipping the Velvet

This is such a memorable novel that takes you on a curious romp through Victorian London. Nan King makes for a feisty and dominant protagonist whose rise a... READ MORE

Chichester

Tipping the Velvet

This is such a memorable novel that takes you on a curious romp through Victorian London. Nan King makes for a feisty and dominant protagonist whose rise a... READ MORE

Emma Louise Pennell at Chichester

A Saucy and fast paced romp for everybody

I was lucky to receive a proof copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. I had never read this particular Waters' novel although all of her ot... READ MORE

Tracey McHardy

Memorable.

This is such a memorable novel that takes you on a curious romp through Victorian London. Nan King makes for a feisty and dominant protagonist whose rise a... READ MORE

Emma Prince at Portsmouth

brilliant historical novel

This delivered all it promised and hit well above my expectations. The historical element is fascinating because not only does it present its self as a fai... READ MORE

emily@waterstonestorquay

Synopsis

'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'.

Publisher information

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9781844088195
Number of pages: 480
Dimensions: 201 x 131 x 39 mm
Weight: 584g
Languages: English

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Please sir, can I have some more?

I was originally worried that the story would be too fast paced, or that the plot would be too predictable ... but after the first few chapters, I was head... READ MORE

Jay F

Tipping the Velvet

Others have outlined the story of this book, I just want to try to describe how it affected me. Reading a Sarah Waters novel is to live with her characters... READ MORE

Natalie Tereshchenko

A fun romp around London

This was a rip-roaring romp through Victorian London, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Nancy is a girl from honest beginnings who is discovering 'tommish' feel... READ MORE

Beaut

Victorian underworld, uncovered.

This book takes us through the life of a victorian girl trying to find herself. From humble Kentish oyster girl to a secret lover of a secret tom, to the d... READ MORE

Interesting

This play had a good style and humour but I didn't personally connect to the content. It had a fun style and I liked the way the play interacted with the a... READ MORE

Ella Holt

Tipping The Velvet

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