Forever Amber
Kathleen Winsor · 1944
A scandalous best-seller that was banned in several US states. Amber St. Clare's survival story in Restoration England, her many lovers, and the one she can't stop wanting. Winsor wrote a proto-feminist heroine who uses every tool available to a woman in the 17th century and refuses apology for any of it. A love story that doubles as a portrait of feminine power.
The case against
Nine hundred seventy pages of rise, ruin, and remarriage on a loop. Amber survives Newgate, the plague, the Fire, and husband after husband, yet the structure never varies: she climbs, Bruce Carlton drifts through, she falls. Winsor researched Restoration London for years and makes you feel every index card.
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