Love from the Pink Palace: Memories of Love, Loss and Cabaret through the AIDS Crisis, for fans of IT'S A SIN

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Warning to anyone with the slightest resistance to writing about friendships formed through singing show tunes; they will wonder quite what the fuss is about with this book, and will wonder quite where the author is coming from. It’s truest amazing to read Jill telling these boys stories, sharing their lives, their loves and their experiences.

There are also possibilities of false negative results and and false positive results with the tests to worry about.But soon rumours were spreading from America about a frightening illness being dubbed the 'gay flu', and Jill and her friends - spirited Juan Pablo, Jae with his beautiful voice, upbeat Dursley, and many others - found their formerly carefree existence now under threat. The confidence the young gay men hid a weakness where they believed they were good listeners, because they were clever and they were good learners. For fans of channel four’s ‘It’s a sin’ this is a must read…the book is very different to the show and is heartbreaking, funny, enlightening and shocking. I enjoyed that Nalder also focuses on the wide reaching horrors of the AIDS pandemic and shows how loved those who suffered were.

It is an homage to those medical practitioners who so tirelessly worked to give dignity and love throughout the treatments.This story is a mix of things - creativity, and artistic dreams as well as friendship and family (both born and found), strength, grief, and most of all love. Their stories now do not only live in the fictional characters of Ritchie, Ash, Colin, Roscoe and Gregory but in full, never-to-be-forgotten technicolour in the pages of Love From the Pink Palace. It probably also helps if you're really passionate about theatre, because there's a big emphasis on the London theatre scene in the 80s. It is hard to put yourself in the position of Jill or her many friends at the time, but it was life - ups and downs.