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Tipping The Velvet

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.
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Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight & 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 & 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.

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star - A giant ball of plasma held together by gravity.
King - The figure head of a monarch
Velvet - A soft fabric with a small pile.
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