Tipping The Velvet

Author: Waters, Sarah

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 16 May 2024 by Little, Brown Book Group (Virago Press Ltd) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the VMC' series.

Paperback | 480 pages
128 x 198 x 34 | 382g

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