Forever Amber

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Beschreibung:

Rediscover the brilliance of Forever Amber in the Mermaid Collection - classic books by popular pioneering female authors republished to delight new generations of readers. Pre-order this gorgeous edition now.

A BANNED BOOK to read and reread, Forever Amber is an unforgettable romance, a timeless masterpiece and a runaway bestseller in its day.---------
'Forever Amber is not only brilliant - once you start, I defy you to stop reading - but incredibly modern' India Knight

With a foreword by India Knight---------

'If you had better sense you'd have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness.'
1644, and Amber St Clare's birth is her noble-born mother's death. Raised in the countryside, in ignorance of her true origins, sixteen-year-old Amber's beauty nevertheless attracts the eye of soldier Lord Bruce Carlton on his way to London to celebrate Charles II reclaiming his throne.
Amber naively convinces his Lordship to take her with him, where she discovers a beguiling but terrifying world: of highwaymen and whores, courtiers and conmen. After many adventures, she is left abandoned, pregnant and penniless.
But Amber is not defeated.
Embarking on an extraordinary social odyssey, Amber survives multiple marriages and births, the Plague and the Great Fire, steadily rising from the gutter to the very top of London society - via the King's bed - in the years of the Restoration - all the while plotting and pining for the one man she cannot have.
In a world that holds women firmly in their place, Amber scandalizes all by obeying no one's rules but her own . . .
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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

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Über die Urheberinnen:

Kathleen Winsor was born on 1919 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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Produktdetails:

• Autor:in: Kathleen Winsor
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.09.2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• Seitenumfang: 1088 Seiten
• ISBN: 9781405994934