Tipping the VelvetFrom the oyster huts of Whitstable to the music halls of Victorian London, Tipping the Velvet is the glorious first novel from this much loved author ''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