Sarah Waters

Tipping the Velvet

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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, Tipping the Velvet follows the glittering career of Nan King – oyster girl turned music-hall star turned rent boy turned East End ‘tom’.
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  • dariadiashared an impression5 years ago
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    Just read it. The scene’s a Victorian England you’ve never seen before

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  • Jenis Lhaokunlavanichhas quoted3 years ago
    They walked together, and the world smiled to see it! They embraced on the street, and strangers were glad! While all the time I lived pale as a worm, cast out from pleasure, from comfort and ease.
  • Jenis Lhaokunlavanichhas quoted3 years ago
    a quick, sharp, agonised cry, as if the paper was hot and had burned me. The cry became a low, ragged moan that went on, and on, until I wondered that I had breath enough left to make it.
  • Kingahas quoted4 years ago
    I suspected that my boots had worn their way right through my stockings, and had started on the bare flesh of my toes and heels and ankles

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