![]() ![]() ![]() She makes me sore, here.” I placed a hand upon my chest, upon the breast-bone. Then she walks on the stage and – she is so pretty and her suit is so nice and her voice is so sweet… She makes me want to smile and weep, at once. I watch the acts before her and they are like nothing – they’re like dust. ![]() It’s like I am filling up, like a wine-glass when it’s filled with wine. It’s like I never saw anything at all before. “When I see her,” I said, “it’s like – I don’t know what it’s like. Visiting the Canterbury Palace, she becomes smitten with male impersonator Kitty Butler, who soon notices her young admirer and takes her on as her official ‘dresser’. It is 1890 and Nancy Astley lives with her family in Whitstable, working in the family oyster parlour. Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters debut novel is a rich and hugely entertaining picaresque romp through the lesbian world of Victorian London.įollowing the literal and metaphorical journey of Nan Astley from her sheltered family life in the seaside town of Whitstable to treading the boards in the music halls of London, Tipping the Velvet is a novel about self-creation and discovery, the fiction of making yourself up. ![]()
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