The novel includes portrayals of Restoration fashion, including the introduction and popularization of tea in English coffeehouses and the homes of the fashionably rich politics and public disasters, including the plague and the Great Fire of London. The subplot of the novel follows Charles II of England as he returns from exile and adjusts to ruling England. Clare, who makes her way up through the ranks of 17th century English society by sleeping with and/or marrying successively richer and more important men, while keeping her love for the one man she can never have. The novel tells the story of orphaned Amber St.
Forever Amber (1944) is a historical romance novel by Kathleen Winsor set in 17th-century England.
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