Tipping the Velvet

Cross-dressing performer Kitty walks onto the stage, and at that moment, Nan’s life is changed forever.

Nan’s life has been a simple one – living in a coastal English town, shelling oysters at her parents’ parlor restaurant – until now. When her heart is captured by the stirring androgyny of Kitty’s stage persona, she drops everything to follow the actress to Victorian-era London. What proceeds is a whirlwind journey through the upper crust and lowest gutters of the city. This novel portrays an authentic atmosphere of a place where anything is possible, as well as imagines what life was like for a woman-loving woman in 19th century England.