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Forever Amber

The length of the book, the flash and roar and colour and excitement and general naughtiness, spring from the author’s passionate fascination. Quite simply, it entertains you in the most preposterous, flamboyant way

Packed with melodramatic action, rich with historical background

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1644, and Amber St Clair’s birth leads to her noble-born mother’s death. Raised in ignorance of her true origins, Amber is sixteen when she learns the power of her voluptuous beauty. 
 
Attracting the eye of soldier Lord Bruce Carlton, Amber is whisked away to London. In a city of highwaymen and whores, courtiers and conmen, she finds danger. For nearly all see Amber as a girl to discard. 
 
But Amber – abandoned, pregnant and penniless – knows her beauty is a blessing. As plague and fire abound, she uses her charms to licentiously rise to the bed of the King of England. 
 
Yet always, Amber pines for the man who took stole her heart . . .

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A book to read and reread, Forever Amber is an unforgettable romance, a timeless masterpiece and a runaway bestseller in its day. 
 
 ‘There was about her a kind of warm luxuriance, something immediately suggestive to the men of pleasurable fulfilment . . .’ 
 
1644, and Amber St Clair’s birth leads to her noble-born mother’s death. Raised in secrecy and ignorance of her true origins, Amber is aged sixteen when she learns the power of her voluptuous beauty. 
 
Attracting the eye of soldier Lord Bruce Carlton, Amber is first tumbled then whisked away to London. In a city of highwaymen and whores, courtiers and conmen, she finds both opportunity – and danger. For nearly all see in Amber a girl to possess, then discard. 
 
But Amber – abandoned, pregnant and penniless – knows her beauty is more blessing than curse. As plague and fire ravage the city, she uses her charms to licentiously rise from the gutter to the bed of the King of England. 
 
Yet always, Amber’s heart pines for the man who took her virtue and stole her heart – Lord Bruce Carlton . . . Praise for Kathleen Winsor:'The length of the book, the flash and roar and colour and excitement and general naughtiness, spring from the author’s passionate fascination. Quite simply, it entertains you in the most preposterous, flamboyant way' Atlantic'Packed with melodramatic action, rich with historical background' New York Times

‘There was about her a kind of warm luxuriance, something immediately suggestive to the men of pleasurable fulfilment . . .’ 
 
1644, and Amber St Clair’s birth leads to her noble-born mother’s death. Raised in secrecy and ignorance of her true origins, Amber is aged sixteen when she learns the power of her voluptuous beauty. 
 
Attracting the eye of soldier Lord Bruce Carlton, Amber is first tumbled then whisked away to London. In a city of highwaymen and whores, courtiers and conmen, she finds both opportunity – and danger. For nearly all see in Amber a girl to possess, then discard. 
 
But Amber – abandoned, pregnant and penniless – knows her beauty is more blessing than curse. As plague and fire ravage the city, she uses her charms to licentiously rise from the gutter to the bed of the King of England. 
 
Yet always, Amber’s heart pines for the man who took her virtue and stole her heart – Lord Bruce Carlton . . . 
 
 
‘The length of the book, the flash and roar and colour and excitement and general naughtiness, spring from the author’s passionate fascination. Quite simply, it entertains you in the most preposterous, flamboyant way’ Atlantic 
 
‘Packed with melodramatic action, rich with historical background’ New York Times

Kathleen Winsor was born on 1915 and raised in Berkeley, California. Aged 18, she made a list of her goals in life – one of which was to write a best-selling novel. Forever Amber emerged after she became fascinated in the Restoration period her husband was studying. While he was away fighting in the Second World War, she wrote her novel. Despite being cut by four fifths, the published book was still nearly a thousand pages long. It was immediately banned in 14 US states for its heroine’s immorality (‘Adultery’s no a crime – it’s an amusement’), and, perhaps as a consequence, went on to become the biggest-selling novel of the 1940s. Kathleen went on to write a number of other novels but none matched the staggering success – and notoriety – of her first. She died in 2003, having been married four times.

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The length of the book, the flash and roar and colour and excitement and general naughtiness, spring from the author’s passionate fascination. Quite simply, it entertains you in the most preposterous, flamboyant way

Packed with melodramatic action, rich with historical background

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