Tipping the velvet by sarah waters5/24/2023 Through a friend at the box office, Nan manages to visit all her shows and finally meet her heroine. Written with startling power' New York Times Book Review Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. 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. * Sarah Water's wonderfully lush, sensuous and bawdy debut novel set in the music halls of the late 19th century - reissued with a stunning new jacket Num Pages: 480 pages. Description for Tipping the Velvet Paperback.
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