Published by Vintage Classics, part of Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Author:
Rose Tremain
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099529637
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EAN: 9780099529637
Published: 2 Jul 2009
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
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. However, when he fails at the one thing the King demands of him he is cast out from his new found paradise. Determined to be restored to the King's favour, Merivel begins a journey to self-knowledge that takes him to the depths of seventeenth-century society.
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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
Rose Tremain’s bestselling novels have won many awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music and Silence), the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Prix Femina Etranger (Sacred Country).Restoration was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in1989 and made into a film in 1995.Her short story, ‘Moth’, was also filmed (as the award-winning Ricky) by François Ozon in 2009. Her most recent novel, Trespass, was a Richard and Judy Bookclub Choice. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007.She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.
