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Restoration (Vintage Classics) Book
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Foyles
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*
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TheBookPeople
This title is presented 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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BookDepository
Restoration : Paperback : Vintage Publishing : 9780099529637 : : 29 Jun 2011 : 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.
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Pickabook
Rose Tremain, Rose Tremain
- 0099529637
- 9780099529637
- Rose Tremain
- 2 July 2009
- Vintage Classics
- Paperback (Book)
- 416
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