Tipping The Velvet

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'Erotic and absorbing . . . Written with startling power' New York Times Book Review'Sarah Waters is an extremely confident writer, combining precise, sensuous descriptions with irony and wit' Observer