Forever Amber ~ Paperback ~ Kathleen Winsor

Abandoned pregnant and penniless on the teeming streets of London, 16 year old Amber St Clare uses her wits, beauty and courage to limb to the highest position a woman could achieve in Resotration England - that of favourite mistress of the merry monarch himself, Charles II. From whores and highwayman to courtiers and noblemen, from the Great Plague and the Fire of London to the intimate passions of the ordinary - and extraordinary - mean and women, Amber experiences it all. But through her trials and escapades she remains in her heart true to the one man she can never have, the one man she truly loves.Author BiographyKathleen 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.