Waters builds their relationship so delicately, so innocently and this lends a great tenderness and fragility to the emerging relationship between the two girls. Nancy discovers both Kitty Butler and the romantic yearnings of her own heart on an outing to the theatre. Nancy is in her late teens as the story opens and we walk beside her through her coming of age and her coming out. She is the daughter of an Oyster selling family in Whitstable, southern England at the end of the 1880s. What’s Tipping the Velvet all about?įrom the first page we are invited through the veil, into Nancy’s personal life. The language, the style, the story, the pacing, I savoured every page. It took me on a journey unlike anything else I have ever read. Published in 1998 when she was just 28, it has been rightly hailed as a standout in lesbian Literature. Tipping the Velvet was Sarah Waters’ first novel. I am thrilled to write about Tipping the Velvet for my first book review on my blog.
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