Restoration [electronic resource]
Tremain, Rose2010
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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*
Main title:
Restoration [electronic resource] / Rose Tremain
Author:
Tremain, Rose, Author of introduction, etc
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Random House, 2010
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Biography/History:
Rose Tremain's novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won several 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) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Sacred Country). Her most recent novel, The Gustav Sonata, was a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. It won the National Jewish Book Award in the US, the South Bank Sky Arts Award in the UK and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes. www.rosetremain.co.uk
ISBN:
9781407087450
Language:
English
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BRN:
2308049