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      Restoration

      by Rose Tremain
      Published
      May 1990
      Main Genre
      Historical Historical
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      423
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      Merivel Book 1

      About This Book

      The Booker shortlisted novel that "restored the historical novel to its rightful place of honor" (New York Times).

      Robert Merivel, son of a glove maker and an aspiring physician, finds his fortunes transformed when he is given a position at the court of King Charles II. Merivel slips easily into a life of luxury and idleness, enthusiastically enjoying the women and wine of the vibrant Restoration age. But when he's called on to serve the king in an unusual role, he transgresses the one law that he is forbidden to break and is brutally cast out from his newfound paradise. Thus begins Merivel's journey to self-knowledge, which will take him down into the lowest depths of seventeenth-century society.

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      General Fiction Romance

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      Historical Historical Romance

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      Apr 1991 Penguin ISBN 014012893X
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