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Tipping The Velvet Author: Sarah Waters

ISBN: 9781860495243 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 480 Published: 4 March 1999 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 19.7 x 12.8 x 3.1 Description: An exhilarating modern classic, now available in a beautiful new hardback edition as part of the VMC set for adult and young adult readers.

'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'.

About the Author

Sarah Waters was born in Wales. She has won a Betty Trask Award and the Somerset Maugham Award, and her books have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, Fingersmith and The Night Watch have been adapted for television. Sarah Waters has been named Author of the Year four times: by the British Book Awards, the Booksellers' Association, Waterstone's Booksellers and the Stonewall Awards. She lives in London.

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