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Restoration: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lily

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Description for Restoration: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lily Paperback. Robert Merivel is a dissolute young medical student when an accident of fate leads him to the attention of King Charles II. Finding favour with the King, Merivel embarks on the time of his life, enthusiastically enjoying the luxury, women and wine of the vibrant royal court, until he is called upon to serve his monarch in an unusual role. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 298.

Discover this bestselling classic from the author of The Gustav Sonata, charting Robert Merivel’s rise and fall through glittering seventeenth-century society.


When a twist of fate delivers an ambitious young medical student to the court of King Charles II, he is suddenly thrust into a vibrant world of luxury and opulence. Blessed with a quick wit and sparkling charm, Robert Merivel rises quickly, soon finding favour with the King, and privileged with a position as ‘paper groom’ to the youngest of the King’s mistresses.

But by falling in love with her, Merivel transgresses the one rule that will cast him out from his new-found paradise…

‘A most beautiful and original novel’ Independent

‘Triumphant’ Sunday Telegraph

‘Dazzling’ New York Review of Books

*Rose Tremain has sold over ONE MILLION books. Enter her vivid historical world*

Product Details

Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099529637
SKU
V9780099529637
Shipping Time
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99-99

About Rose Tremain
Rose Tremain (Author, Introducer) Rose Tremain's novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won many awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Dylan Thomas Award (The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music & Silence) the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Prix Femina in France (Sacred Country) and the South Bank Sky Arts Award (The Gustav Sonata). Her most recent novel is Lily, a Richard and Judy Book Club selection. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and a Dame in 2020. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.

Reviews for Restoration: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lily
For a vivid – and funny – fictional re-creation of the era, Tremain’s Restoration is hard to beat.
The Times
Richly evocative novel.
BBC History Magazine
Triumphant
Sunday Telegraph
Gripping
Herald
A most beautiful and original novel
Independent
A dazzling triumph… It is nothing less than superb
New York Times Book Review
To be moved and impressed by a novel and yet so entertained, is rare
Fay Weldon

Goodreads reviews for Restoration: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lily