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 * Atlantic *
Packed with melodramatic action, rich with historical background * New York Times *
Commercial fiction at its very best … This big, lush. historical novel is ready for the next generation of readers … It’s got the lot: passion, intrigue and adventure * The Bookseller *
A naughty great doorstep of a book published in 1944, did for Restoration England what Gone With The Wind had done for the Old South … The passage of time has meant that a book considered raunchy and risque on publication is now viewed as a classic * Daily Express *
The bodice-ripper of the year … Amber St Clare’s wanton progression through the court of Charles II is both saucy and moralistic - Amber loves > the only man she cannot have. Swords at the hip, hair to the shoulders, boots to the knee, Winsor’s cavaliers haven’t lost their rakish appeal * Independent *
Page-turning * Woman’s Own *
Bloody good read * New Woman *
Preposterously long and sumptuously naughty … Miss Winsor, if she felt so inclined, could justifiably claim to be the woman who invented the modern blockbuster. How subversive and fresh it seems, even to knowing twenty-first century eyes. It is the very opposite of dusty or coy… Who can resist a heroine who calls her enemies ‘stupid addle-pated boobies’ and ‘nasty old slubber-degullions’? Not me, that’s for sure * Observer *
No wonder the book caused trouble. Amber was a footballer’s wife before anyone had television; a serial fiancee before the engagement ring was born * Sunday Tribune *
I was awed by Amber’s courage, daring and strength. Re-reading the novel now is no disappointment. Like all bestsellers, Forever Amber revealed its age’s secret desires and myths. Amber St Clare is a heroine of enormous intelligence and resourcefulness. It may be time to recognise Forever Amber as a classic, and to appreciate Kathleen Winsor’s special brand of feminine genius * Guardian *

Kathleen Winsor was born in 1919. She became fascinated with Charles II and his immoral court after reading her first husband’s thesis on the subject. Five years and much research later, she wrote FOREVER AMBER. It was a sensation, selling over 2 million copies in hardback, and was banned in Boston. It outsold almost every other book of the decade and became a bestseller in 16 countries. Kathleen Winsor lives in New York.

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