![]() ![]() She was awarded the Stonewall Writer of the Decade in 2016. Sarah Waters has written five subsequent bestselling novels, all of which have been filmed or are currently in production and she has received critical and popular acclaim and prize shortlists. `One of the best storytellers alive today’ – Independent. It launched the career of one of Britain’s most exciting and successful writers. 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.Ī saucy, sensuous and multi-layered historical romance, Tipping the Velvet follows the glittering career of Nan King – oyster girl turned music-hall star turned rent boy turned East End ‘tom’. ![]() To celebrate, Virago will be releasing a beautiful collector’s edition hardback, with new afterword from Sarah. In February 2018 it will be twenty years since TIPPING THE VELVET was published. ![]()
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