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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*



Trade Review
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 *

Restoration

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Classics
      Published 2 July 2009
      ISBN-13 9780099529637
      978-0099529637
      ISBN-10 0099529637
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      Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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*



      Trade Review
      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 *

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