It was clear that I must investigate this matter. One soldier wrote, “If you’ve ever seen books that were completely worn out by reading, it was the copies of Forever Amber.” Naturally this meant that soldiers longed to read it. Forever Amber was banned in several states at the time because of, as the Attorney General of Massachusetts so helpfully counted, “70 references to sexual intercourse, 39 illegitimate pregnancies, 7 abortions, and 10 descriptions of women undressing in front of men.” I had to read Forever Amber because of another book, When Books Went To War by Molly Guphill Manning. There’s also great historical detail, and I cannot tell a lie, I tore through this book as though it was a bag of Cheetos, in that I knew it was bad for me but I couldn’t put it down until it was all gone. There’s a lot of toxic crap in it, and it features an amoral anti-heroine. Some books defy reviews and Forever Amber, written by Kathleen Winsor in 1944, is one of them.
Genre: Historical: European, Literary Fiction
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