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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By sharing the lives of her ‘boys’ with us and letting us laugh, while we feel the trembling possibilities they all felt were theirs for the taking, Jill does what she promised them. In this moving memoir, IT’S A SIN’s Jill Nalder tells the true story of her life during the AIDS crisis, and that of friends and colleagues, doctors and nurses, activists and fundraisers. The real-world effects of this historical piece came quickly: requests for HIV tests shot up, and a significant amount of money was raised for the Terrence Higgins Trust through sales of a T-shirt bearing the word “La”. The author is a talented heterosexual woman whose talent for writing songs, singing and performing for the public put her in contact with a society of selectively extrovert gay men and drag artists who wanted nothing more in life than to be on the stage, men who wanted to live their whole lives to be part of a distinctly extrovert, well performed, stagecraft.

Love from the Pink Palace by Jill Nalder | Hachette UK Love from the Pink Palace by Jill Nalder | Hachette UK

Jill Nalder, a West End actress, came to the capital from south Wales eight years before I got there.The frequent mention of so many show tunes and musicals through out the book could have been the lyrics of a list song to me. It is an homage to those medical practitioners who so tirelessly worked to give dignity and love throughout the treatments.

Jill Nalder and Russell T Davies: Love From the Pink Palace

It read just as a list of famous people that the author knew and with too many people included it was difficult to attach to any of them.Despite the darkness and despair of parts of the book, Nalder skillfully combines snippets of humour, loads of love and joy and a deep humanity that , despite my tears, kept me reading on. We're very happy to know that you had a great time with us and that you found our staff to be friendly, honest, and helpful.