Tipping The Velvet

Sarah Waters (author)

Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction | Hardback Published on: 01/02/2018

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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

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

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

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, Tipping the Velvet follows the glittering career of Nan King - oyster girl turned music-hall star turned rent boy turned East End 'tom'.

It launched the career of one of Britain's most exciting and successful writers. `One of the best storytellers alive today' - Independent. Sarah Waters has written five subsequent bestselling novels, all of which have been filmed or are currently in production and she has received critical and popular acclaim and prize shortlists. She was awarded the Stonewall Writer of the Decade in 2016.

Tipping the Velvet was adapted by Andrew Davies and filmed by Sally Head Productions for the BBC

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9780349008486
Number of pages: 496
Weight: 756g
Dimensions: 145 x 224 x 39 mm

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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

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

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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