Sarah Waters is a young English writer who skillfully explores sex and gender in historical novels, but the device she uses in this book (beginning the story at the end, after WWII, and moving backward in time to the beginning of the war) came off a bit too gimmicky. Tipping the Velvet is her first and her best, a great book set in Victorian England. I've tried her others and found them to be good but not great. Sort of like Paul McCartney after The Beatles in Wings. Not bad, but no comparison to what came before. Check out Tipping the Velvet if you're interested in Waters at her very best.
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