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. There are also possibilities of false negative results and and false positive results with the tests to worry about. s as explored through three close friends', as the lives of three close friends of Jill Nalder are shared in the book, along with a few more distant friendships, mark the progress that doctors and hospitals make in managing the medication and emotional support of young men with A.

Growing up through the 80’s I witnessed the war years and this book takes me right back to the time and london.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report.

When Jill Nalder arrived at drama school in London in the early 1980s, she was ready for her life to begin.The author talks a little about the process of the 'coming out' part, but she keeps to herself the most private revelations the young men reveal to her as she plays 'mother hen'/parental substitute to them in different settings. But from the tone of the book it seems to me that they were better talkers and better at living in the moment than they were closely observant listeners for each other. On a lighter note, I think anyone who likes theatre or anything West End/Broadway would really enjoy this as that is the industry Jill and her friends all work in and there's mentions of loads of different shows as well as some names that people may recognise. From 1985 onward Jill Nalder talked in her phrase 'liked a cracked record' to describe the frequency of her advice to the young gay men who were her friends about the necessity of safer sex practices, as they were commonly understood.

Like a book I read previously and reviewed here, by a different author, I came to this book via BBC radio. 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 to any jobs she could get.The suffering and the help that others tried to provide laid out in full technicolour, cabaret, theatre, shows, hospitals, etc. 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. But the inability to suppress same sex desire is more complex than either parent or young man can understand, but the young men at least try to understand-and create a model that other young men in less open circumstances may try to adapt. I don’t usually enjoy autobiographical books, and at first I thought this was the same as others I had read or tried to read, but I persisted and I was rewarded with a beautiful moving and heartbreaking read.