num_pages: 472
description: Chronicles the picaresque adventures and romantic misadventures of Nan King, a one-time oyster girl from a provincial seaside town, through the gay and lesbian world of late Victorian England. A first novel. 15,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Tipping the Velvet
titlecomplete: Tipping the Velvet
genres: Historical, Adult, Lesbian, Victorian, LGBT, Romance, Queer, Gay, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 68888
places: London, England, Whitstable, England
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Lesbian Fiction, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Betty Trask Award, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: The Publishing Triangle Award
category: Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction
publisher: Riverhead Hardcover