See also: Amber (homonymy)

Ambre ( Forever Amber ) is a novel of Kathleen Winsor published in 1944.

Before film of Otto Preminger was the novel, published into 1944 in the United States and 1947 in France. Amber , the best-seller of these years, is placed of entry in the large historical novels. Kathleen Winsor tells us the epopee of a country young person become courtesan, but in backdrop, it is all England of the years 1660 and the reign of Charles II which are explained to us, told with a picaresque ardor which points out to us the best moments of Alexandre Dumas. One often compared Ambre with Moll Flanders of Daniel Defoe.

Summary

First of all, which is Ambre? A country-woman, certainly, but of noble birth. Born in 1644 during the civil war between the partisans from the king Charles Ier and the members of Parliament, whereas his/her mother was taken refuge in an rural family. Alas, his/her mother dies by putting it at the world and Ambre will be adopted by commoners.

Sixteen years after, the passage of Lord Carlton in his village will upset its life, she leaves with him to London and starts her new life. Said " basic extraction" Amber undertakes, after the departure of Lord Carlton, a slow rise to reconquer the titles and the money to which it would have had right by its birth. Nobility which she will be unaware of besides always. Parallel to this painful rise, for which Ambre will use of the only weapons that it has, its beauty and its smoothness of spirit, long chapters evoking the return to the throne and the life of Charles II and its entourage are proposed to us. it is not the least enthralling part of this novel, because one feels a remarkable documentation and a scholarship there over this time of the restoration. Until the moment when the two stories meet because Ambre becomes the mistress of Charles II and comes to live at the court.

But it remains always in love with Lord Carlton, with whom it had a son, Bruce, then a girl, Suzanne. One sees the couple being found, being left, throughout the novel, even when Carlton settles in Virginia and Corinne wife. This despaired passion, tearing hoop net the Amber life and prevents it from enjoying the privileges which it conquered with so many difficulties.

The novel has an end which is not one. Had Kathleen Winsor it envisaged a continuation that it forever written? Lord Carlton sets out again with Corinne in America. Members of the court, exceeded by Amber, make him believe that Corinne died during the voyage. Amber Gives up all and embarks for Virginia. With us to imagine the continuation…

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