Restoration

Rose Tremain

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EAN: 9780099582090
Published: 23 Aug 2012

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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…

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

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What the critics say

Triumphant
- Sunday Telegraph

To be moved and impressed by a novel and yet so entertained, is rare
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A dazzling triumph… It is nothing less than superb
- New York Times Book Review

A most beautiful and original novel
- Independent

Gripping
- Herald

Witty, exciting and evocative. Restoration is a wonderful book
- The Week

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About the Author

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, the first of her novels to feature Robert Merivel, 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.

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