Kathleen Winsor

Forever Amber

Novel of a woman's rise from poverty to wealth and power through seduction in seventeenth-century England

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Kathleen Winsor
Kathleen Winsor

Kathleen Winsor's Forever Amber was the most scandalous bestseller of the 1940s, a bawdy historical romance set in Restoration England that was banned in several states. Its enormous popularity reflected postwar appetite for romantic escapism.

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