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Katie Lumsden
Apr 30, 2018 rated it it was amazing
I absolutely adored this, even more than Fingersmith. So well written, so engaging and moving. I love the exploration of Victorian society, especially of the Victorian lesbian underworld. At its heart, this is just a brilliant coming of age story (with a fair bit of romance thrown in).
Jo
Aug 19, 2018 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
4.5 stars

I’ve been wanting to read Sarah Waters for some time and thought I may as well start at the beginning of her writing career. I have to admit I wasn’t that interested in reading about the music hall scene of the mid nineteenth century but got drawn into the people and the period and the narrative of Nancy King and in the end couldn’t put it down.

A fairly traditional story of a young girl leaving her coastal fishing village for a life in London with her love, becomes so much more as in am
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Amanda Lavelle
Aug 24, 2018 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
I kindly received a digital copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
Firstly, I can't believe this novel is 20 yrs old! And secondly, I can't believe I hadn't yet read it. I've read a few of Sarah Waters' novels before and have always been very impressed. I think you're hard pressed to find her equal in character and plot development. The opening few paragraphs in this novel are some of the most atmospheric and emotive I've come across in quite some time. I could almost
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Kat
Aug 01, 2017 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
This one is a bit hard to rate. I loved the first and third part, but absolutely hated the middle part. The writing also could have used some editing, since I found myself thinking from time to time "oh boy, I don't need to know, how many steps and turns you're taking to get to your room!" and similar thoughts like that.

The topic and the story is definitely worth reading and of course Sarah Waters did a great job depicting, that there was LGBQ+ life before the end of the 20th Century.

I'll defia
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Jessica
Nov 09, 2017 rated it really liked it
Months ago I stumbled upon Tipping the Velvet in a list for recommendations in LGBT+ books. I made a note of it but forgot about it. Jump to about two weeks ago to when I watched the movie The Handmaiden, directed by Park Chan Wook. I loved it and thought it was one of the best things I've seen in a really long time. While looking up facts on the movie I saw that the film was based on another by Sarah Waters, Fingersmith. Fingersmith is definitely a book I want to get into sometime soon, but I d ...more
Hanna
Jan 12, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Linnea
Jan 11, 2018 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Nov 30, 2018 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Joanna Smith
Nov 03, 2019 rated it it was amazing
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