In the unlikely event that it had been published during that censorious era, there would have been so many ellipses the novel might have been mistaken for a Morse code handbook. The problems with her second book, however, weren’t so easily solved. Winsor insisted at the time that her story of a hot-blooded courtesan in Restoration England had only two sexy passages, both of which her publisher had replaced with ellipses. mails for obscenity, among a multitude of other sins real or imagined. She finished a first draft, then set it aside during the uproar over Amber, which, as expected, turned out to be 1944’s wickedest best seller - banned from the U.S. Forty years ago, while waiting for her cautious publisher to bring out Forever Amber, Kathleen Winsor started to work on a second novel.
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