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Kathleen Windsor’s Forever Amber, a Naughty Literary Relic, Turns 67

On this day ,18 October, in 1944 Forever Amber by Kathleen Windsor was published for the first time. In this digital age where all our fantasies can be brought to life by the click of a button, it is interesting to look back and see that humans have always been delighted by the forbidden and taboo. Although in Kathleen Windsor’s time things tended to be a bit more romanticized.

Forever Amber is by no means your typical “bodice ripper” though, as highlighted in an article from The Guardian:

Forever Amber, which is set in Restoration London – that swirling cauldron of pox and periwigs – came into being almost by accident. Winsor’s first husband, Robert Herwig, was a football coach and history major at the University of California, and it was while innocently helping him research a history paper that she fell in love with the Merry Monarch and all who slept with him. When the war broke out and Robert went to fight in the Pacific, his wife began writing a novel about the period which was soon bought by an unusually free-thinking publisher. The book scandalised America – it was banned in Boston and burned on the streets – but it sold 100,000 copies in its first week and made Miss Winsor a rich woman.

Steeped in historical facts and full of delightful sensuality, Forever Amber is a long lost literary treasure for all of those who are sick of half nude highlanders and sultry seductive vampires.

Amazingly it is still available and you can get your copy now from Exclusives.co.za! The book was reprinted in 2002 after 30 years of being out of print.

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