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Tipping the Velvet

Tipping the Velvet( )
Author: Waters, Sarah
Series title:A Virago V Ser.
ISBN:978-1-86049-448-2
Publication Date:Mar 1998
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $21.84
Book Description:

Nan is captivated by the music hall phenomenon that is Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. Through a friend at the box office, Nan manages to visit all her shows and finally meet her heroine. Soon after, she becomes Kitty's dresser and the two head for the bright lights of Leicester Square where they start an all-singing and dancing double act. At the same time, behind closed doors, they admit their attraction to each other and their affair begins.

Book Details
Pages:480
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Lgbtq+ / Lesbian
Fiction / Historical / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13.5 x 21.6 cm
Book Weight:0.51 Kilograms
Author Biography
Waters, Sarah (Author)
Sarah Waters was born in Wales in 1966. She has a Ph.D. in English. She is the author of several books including Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, The Night Watch, and The Paying Guests. Fingersmith won the CWA Ellis Peters Dagger Award for Historical Crime Fiction and the South Bank Show Award for Literature. She has won a Betty Trask Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. In 2003, she was chosen as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and was named Author of the Year by the British Book Awards, The Booksellers' Association and Waterstone's Booksellers. Several of her novels have been adapted for television.

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