Restoration by Rose Tremain - ISBN: 9780099529637
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Seventeenth-century rise and fall: wit, charm, love, and transgression.

Restoration

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lily

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  • Paperback

    416 pages

  • Release Date

    1 September 2009

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Summary

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…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099529637
ISBN-10:0099529637
Author:Rose Tremain
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:416
Release Date:1 September 2009
Weight:274g
Dimensions:198mm x 133mm x 28mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“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 *

About The Author

Rose Tremain

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 France’s Prix Femina (Sacred Country), and the South Bank Sky Arts Award (The Gustav Sonata). Her most recent novel is Absolutely and Forever (2023), which was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and a Dame in 2020. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.

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