Restoration

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lily

Rose Tremain, Rose Tremain

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Vintage
01 September 2009

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Historical fiction

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
*

By: Rose Tremain
Introduction by: Rose Tremain
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 288g
ISBN: 9780099529637
ISBN 10: 0099529637
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 01 September 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rose Tremain lives in North London and Norwich, with the biographer Richard Holmes. Her books have won many prizes including the Whitbread Novel of the Year, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Prix Femina Etranger, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Angel Literary Award and the Sunday Express Book of the Year. Restoration was shortlisted for the Booker and made into a film; The Colour was shortlisted for the Orange and selected by the Daily Mail Reading Club. Her most recent collection, The Darkness of Wallis Simpson, was shortlisted for both the First National Short story Award and the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Two of her books (The Colour and The Way I Found Her) are in development as films, and she is currently working on a TV screenplay to star Sir Ian McKellen.

Reviews for Restoration: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lily

A most beautiful and original novel * Independent * Gripping * Herald * Triumphant * Sunday Telegraph * Richly evocative novel. * BBC History Magazine * For a vivid - and funny - fictional re-creation of the era, Tremain's Restoration is hard to beat. * The Times *