Restoration
  • Published: 1 September 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099529637
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $24.99

Restoration

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lily

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1 Jun 2010
Paperback
24 Sep 2020
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1 Sep 2009
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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.

Discover this bestselling classic from the author of The Gustav Sonata, charting Robert Merivel’s rise and fall through glittering seventeenth-century society.


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…

‘A most beautiful and original novel’ Independent
‘Triumphant’ Sunday Telegraph
‘Dazzling’ New York Review of Books

*Rose Tremain has sold over ONE MILLION books. Enter her vivid historical world*
  • Published: 1 September 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099529637
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $24.99
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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). 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

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Also by Rose Tremain

Absolutely and Forever
Iron Robin
Lily
Islands of Mercy
Rosie
Friendship
The Gustav Sonata
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Praise for Restoration

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

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
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