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Restoration

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099598428

  • Length: 432  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 26mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 342g

  • RRP: £9.99

Restoration

  • From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lily

The bestselling classic from a 'magnificent story-teller' (Independent on Sunday). Journey to the glittering seventeenth-century court, and witness the rise and fall of young, charming Robert Merivel...

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…

'For a vivid – and funny – fictional re-creation of the era, Tremain’s Restoration is hard to beat.' The Times

Rose Tremain has sold over one million copies of her books.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099598428

  • Length: 432  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 26mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 342g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • For a vivid – and funny – fictional re-creation of the era, Tremain’s Restoration is hard to beat.

    Robbie Millen, The Times

  • Richly evocative novel.

    BBC History Magazine

  • Triumphant

    Sunday Telegraph

  • To be moved and impressed by a novel and yet so entertained, is rare

    Fay Weldon

  • A dazzling triumph… It is nothing less than superb

    New York Times Book Review

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About the Author

Rose Tremain

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) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Sacred Country) and the South Bank Sky Arts Award (The Gustav Sonata). Her most recent novel is Islands of Mercy. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and a Dame in 2020. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.

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May Podcast: MEN with Rose Tremain, Rebecca Asher, Juno Dawson and David Szalay

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