Rating: 2.5/5Summary: Taking place primarily in the 1890s, Nancy is an oyster girl at her parent’s restaurant. One day she sees an act in the theatre, Miss Kitty Butler performing dressed as a man, and falls in love with her. They become friends, she follows Kitty to London as her dresser, and event...
Tipping the Velvet was my first step into the worlds of LGBT and Sarah Water's literature, and it certainly will not be my last. Through the pages of this novel there is the painting of spectacular scenes, marvellous (though not always admirable) characters and a journey with Nan King, a girl turn (...
I did love the writing (some of the prose is gorgeous!) and the period detail and vocab was fascinating. The characters were all very well drawn, and while Nancy was interesting, I never got a completely clear sense of who she was, as she seemed to mold herself to fit the ideal of whichever woman sh...
Fun, light Victorian novel about Nancy Astley, a blue collar oyster shucker who leaves her small town to act on stage in London. The book portrays an interesting picture of Victorian England, just at the beginning of social reform for the working class. Nancy starts her stage career as a 'masher' ...
I wish there were more books like this story out there. Stories about groups of people in past time periods that have previously not been written about are very interesting. We seem to have an uncountable number of books about rich debutantes and heiresses during the Victorian era but not many abo...
"I feel like I've been repeating other people's speeches all my life. Now, when I want to make a speech, I hardly know how.""If you are fretting over how to tell me you are leaving-""I am fretting," I said, "over how to tell you how I love you; over how to say that you are the world to me."3.5 stars...
I was very close to giving this book 5 stars instead of 4. The way the book started is what made me finally decide on 4 stars. I really loved the settings, the context, the descriptions and story-telling, the overall theme. I wasn't too impressed by the first part, where everything seemed just a bit...
I did not like it as much as I thought would. Maybe because it banked heavily on the erotica, which I wasn't interested in so I just glossed over the sex scenes. Oh alright, I read them with mild curiosity, but that was it. If it did not have the lesbian aspect, it would still be an interesting tale...
While I have seen this book classified as a romance novel I was well pleased to find out it wasn't. It has romantic parts and sure there's sex but it doesn't seem to be the mainstay of the story. Still, for those that like that you'll get enough to titillate you but not so much that the book is cons...
Well this was.....interesting.Okay nevermind, I'm just being nice which isn't really like me. This book was disappointing and just plain bad. I'm going to try to refrain from cursing but it may prove too difficult.First, let us begin with the quote by the Daily Telegraph describing the book: "Lavish...
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