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Sarah Waters wrote this back in the 1990s. I wanted to see if I liked it as much now as then. I did! Nancy Astley grows up in a small town in southern England. At 18, she falls in love with a male impersonator, Kitty Butler, at the local music hall. She follows Kitty to London as her dresser and later as part of her act. Nancy experiences many successes and misfortunes as she discovers the world of late-Victorian lesbian women and struggles to find her place in it. The historical detail is vivid
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I tried to like it - and the writing was wonderful - but I just didn't like Nan.
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