Restoration: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lily

Author: Tremain, Rose

Brand: VINTAGE

Color: Black

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 432

Release Date: 06-07-2015

Details: Product Description


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


Review


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


About the Author


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). Her most recent novel, The Gustav Sonata, was a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. It won the National Jewish Book Award in the US, the South Bank Sky Arts Award in the UK and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and a Dame in 2020. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.www.rosetremain.co.uk

EAN: 9780099598428

Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.0 x 1.1 inches

Languages: English