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Tipping the Velvet

by: Sarah Waters (author)

Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon 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... show more

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Format: Paperback

Publisher: Riverhead Books, U.S.

Pages no: 472

Edition language: English

Category:

Literature, European Literature, British Literature, Historical Fiction, Romance, Adult, Contemporary, Glbt, Queer, Lesbian, Lesbian Fiction

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It's a Books World rated it

9 years ago

http://itsabooksworld.booklikes.com It's a Books World 4.5 Review: Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

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Goodreads summary: This delicious, steamy debut novel chronicles the adventures of Nan King, who begins life as an oyster girl in the provincial seaside town of Whitstable and whose fortunes are forever changed when she falls in love with a cross-dressing music-hall singer named Miss Kitty Butler. W...

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Cheri's Book Blog rated it

9 years ago

http://cherif.booklikes.com Cheri's Book Blog 4.0 The end makes it all worthwhile.

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Sometimes I get the urge to revisit Nancy and Florence. Every re-read is the same: I dread the middle portion of the book but enjoy the first part and love the final part enough to keep going. I don't know why I can't just give myself permission to skip to the parts I want, but I can't.

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Book it Chewie rated it

9 years ago

http://badgerlock.booklikes.com Book it Chewie 4.0

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Wow. Okay. This book was a hell of a roller-coaster for me. It starts out pretty much exactly how I expected. Something sweet, something innocent and naive, before falling down a really long flight of Sin Stairs, very quickly. I'm not unaccustomed to books leaving me reeling after I'd finished rea...

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Jemology rated it

9 years ago

http://Jemologist.booklikes.com Jemology 5.0 Tipping the Velvet

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A friend once told me she doesn't like historical lesfic because the sex is so underwhelming and I agree. Until I read this book. ;) An amazon reviewer calls it 'Victorian porn'--sounds like an oxymoron, doesnt it? Unabashed eroticism in a period of prudishness and high morality. In the context of...

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Cheri's Book Blog rated it

10 years ago

http://cherif.booklikes.com Cheri's Book Blog 4.0 Tipping the Velvet

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Doing a re-listen. I still very much enjoy this book. Even though Nancy is mostly super selfish and naive through nearly all of it. Florence makes up for it all.

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