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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...
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'Rose Tremain has restored the historical novel to its rightful place of honour...her most dazzling triumph is her analysis of the cynical, complex, twisty personality of Charles II...It is nothing less than superb' ( New York Times Book Review )
'Stimulating and imaginative...A mass of historical detail is incorporated with admirable lightness of touch' (Miranda Seymour, Sunday Times )
'To be moved and impressed by a novel, and yet so entertained, is rare' (Fay Weldon)
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'Stimulating and imaginative...A mass of historical detail is incorporated with admirable lightness of touch' (Miranda Seymour, Sunday Times )
'To be moved and impressed by a novel, and yet so entertained, is rare' (Fay Weldon)
The bestselling and much-loved classic from Orange Prize-winning Rose Tremain, Restoration introduces us to the young Robert Merivel and his rise and fall through glittering seventeenth-century society.
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- PublisherVintage Classics
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1784871389
- ISBN 13 9781784871383
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages416
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