{"product_id":"love-from-the-pink-palace-by-jill-nalder-9781472288431","title":"Love from the Pink Palace","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE 2023\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2023\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"I read the book in one go. I laughed and cried like a baby, and was transported back to a time of innocence, clouded by the enormity of the harsh reality... Just amazing\" - CATHERINE ZETA JONES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"As it happens, I was also a Jill in the eighties - but not half as good a Jill as real Jill\" - DAWN FRENCH\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Jill met the crisis head on... She held the hands of so many men. She lost them, and remembered them, and somehow kept going\" - RUSSELL T DAVIES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA heartbreaking, life-affirming memoir of love, loss and cabaret through the AIDS crisis, from \u003cem\u003eIt's A Sin\u003c\/em\u003e's Jill Nalder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Jill Nalder arrived at drama school in London in the early 1980s, she was ready for her life to begin. With her band of best friends - many of whom were young, talented gay men with big dreams of their own - she grabbed London by the horns: partying with drag queens at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, hosting cabarets at her glamorous flat, flitting across town to any jobs she could get.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut soon rumours were spreading from America about a frightening illness being dubbed the 'gay flu', and Jill and her friends now found their formerly carefree existence under threat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this moving memoir, \u003cem\u003eIt's A Sin\u003c\/em\u003e's Jill Nalder tells the true story of her and her friends' lives during the AIDS crisis — juggling a busy West End career while campaigning for AIDS awareness and research, educating herself and caring for the sick. Most of all, she shines a light on those who were stigmatised and shamed, and remembers those brave and beautiful boys who were lost too soon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Thank God for people like [Jill]... I cannot recommend this book highly enough\" - MICHAEL BALL\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"An engaging, moving account\" - \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e Saturday Review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Simultaneously devastating and uplifting\" - \u003ci\u003eGrazia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Engrossing, heart-breaking and inspiring\" - MATT CAIN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46844471181548,"sku":"9781472288431","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/5021833482712.jpg?v=1758843868","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/love-from-the-pink-palace-by-jill-nalder-9781472288431","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}