Forever Amber: Anyone Read it But Me?

[MissDay7000]

This has to be one of my most favorite books of all time. For a historical novel, Kathleen Windsor has been brilliant in her weaving of a young girl who used her wits,beauty and sass to climb to the top in the time of The Restoration Period and the Merry Monarch's rule. So, anyone want to talk about it?

MissDay

[Olivia2007]

I've just finished it. I started it not expecting much, but found her description of life and the culture of that time very interesting. It was interesting how Amber in her desperate attempt to win Bruce Carlton (with money, notoriety) managed to do everything but! He was probably more in love with the innocent country girl he first met than what she turned out to be in the end. I thought it was a good read.

[Susie_Q]

I read this last year and was very impressed with it.

What I loved most about the book was the incredible detail and research undertaken by the author to really create a vivid picture of the Restorian Age, i felt i had been transported back in time!

I particularly was fascinated by the chapters covering the Great Plague - the horrors came to life and educated me far better than any history book could have.

[Anne Boleyn]

Hi Missday,
I've read it one or two years ago and really enjoyed it :)
I have been so in love with characters and situations that I started to read a bunch of history fiction books…
If you loved this, may I suggest you to read Katherine by Anya Seton?
I’ve loved it even more!

[peasoup]

I read "Forever Amber" some time ago, and I liked it very much. I have to admit that I wasn't really into historical fiction before I read this book, but like Anne Boleyn, after reading it, I've been really into exactly that sort of books.
Anyway, great book by any measure.

[plainjane]

Forever Amber is one of my all time favorites, I read it the first time when I was about 16, and just fell in love with the whole period, characters and history of the thing.
One of the points I appreciated was the class consciousness of the period. The irony of her relationship with Carlton was that she was of aristocratic stock and didn't know it. The couple that raised her didn't tell her because they didn't want her to put on airs on account of her lineage.
Carlton was not worth her time IMO, but I wish a sequel would have been written by Winsor, I'd love to know what happened when she reached America!

[Scheherazade]

I read this one about 20 years ago and was not impressed by it much. To me, at the time, it felt like reading one of Barbara Cartland's books (yes, I did read those too). Don't know how I would feel about it now.

[AuntShecky]

Oh, boy, do I ever remember this one-- although we're going back decades. My mother got into a little tiff with the librarian, who apparently made some remark about me ma's "salacious" reading taste. My sisters and I surreptitiously got ahold of the book and tittered over what was then thought to be "naughty" passages. For instance a
line such as "Amber moved over to the stall where her ***** Nellie lay." We were shocked by that "b" word, which
of course referred to the dog's gender.
How times have changed, huh?