Virago’s Publisher Sarah Savitt comments: ‘Each work was both a stand-out book of its time but also speaks to contemporary ideas and readers’. 35.They are celebrating their anniversary this month by reissuing one iconic book from each decade of their existence, each with a smart new cover design. At the same time, behind closed doors, they admit their attraction to each other and their affair begins. Soon after, she becomes Kitty's dresser and the two head for the bright lights of Leicester Square where they begin a glittering career as music-hall stars in an all-singing and dancing double act. Through a friend at the box office, Nan manages to visit all her shows and finally meet her heroine. Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. 9781860495243 Tipping The Velvet 35.4000 NZD InStock /shop/books /shop/books/fiction/contemporary /shop/books/fiction 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. 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. Through a friend at the box office, Nan manages. Written with startling power' New York Times Book Review
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