Synopses & Reviews
The gaudy years of the Restoration are long gone. Robert Merivel, physician and courtier to Charles II, loved for his gift for turning sorrow into laughter, now faces the agitations and anxieties of middle age. Questions crowd his mind: has he been a good father? Is he a fair master? Is he the King's friend or the King's slave?
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""Not just pleasurable, but varied, engrossing, and at times, astonishing." Richard Eder
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"Hilarious and poignant. . . . Fans of will not be disappointed." Boston Globe
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"Robert Merivel is one of the great imaginative creations in English literature of the past 50 years. [ is] as rich and as dazzling as its predecessor--steeped in wise and witty reflection on the great Mysteries of Life, and the timeless, futile Hopes and Follies." Daily Beast
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"Starred review. It's an absolute pleasure to spend time in Merivel's company." Mick Brown The Daily Telegraph
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"A big, gorgeous sprawl of a novel." Booklist
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"Richly marbled with intelligence, compassion and compelling characters, leavened with flourishes of lyricism and and attractive tolerance towards human frailties." Library Journal
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Get ready to laugh, prepare to weep--Robert Merivel is back in Rose Tremain's magical sequel to .
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From the Orange Prize-winning author Rose Tremain comes a brilliant and picaresque novel of seventeenth-century England. In the wake of the gaudy years of the Restoration, Robert Merivel, physician and courtier to Charles II, faces the agitations and anxieties of middle age. Questions crowd his mind: has he been a good father? Is he a fair master? Is he the King's friend or the King's slave? In search of answers, Merivel sets off for the French court of Versailles, where--inevitably--misadventures ensue.
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Get ready to laugh, prepare to weep—Robert Merivel is back in Rose Tremain’s magical sequel to Restoration.
About the Author
Rose Tremain's best-selling novels have won many awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music & Silence), the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Prix Femina Etranger (Sacred Country). Restoration was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989 and made into a film in 1995. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer Richard Holmes.