Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, & in the centre of this was a girl: the most marvellous girl
- I knew it at once!
- that I had ever seen. A saucy, sensuous & multi-layered historical romance, Tipping the Velvet follows the glittering career of Nan King
- oyster girl turned music-hall star turned rent boy turned East End `tom`.