Restoration

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 BooksRose Tremain has sold over ONE MILLION books. Enter her vivid historical world

“"A most beautiful and original novel." -Independent "Triumphant." -Sunday Telegraph”

For a vivid – and funny – fictional re-creation of the era, Tremain’s Restoration is hard to beat. 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

Rose Tremain (Author, Introducer)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) the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Prix Femina in France (Sacred Country) and the South Bank Sky Arts Award (The Gustav Sonata). Her most recent novel is Lily, a Richard and Judy Book Club selection. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and a Dame in 2020. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.

'Triumphant' Sunday Telegraph 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. See also: The Name of the Rose

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