Love from the Pink Palace

''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

''As it happens, I was also a Jill in the eighties - but not half as good a Jill as real Jill'' DAWN FRENCH

''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

A heartbreaking, life-affirming memoir of love, loss and cabaret through the AIDS crisis, from IT''S A SIN''s Jill Nalder

When 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 - of which many 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