‘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.’ A 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’.
