Get ready to laugh, prepare to weep Robert Merivel is back in award-winning author, Rose Tremain's magical sequel to Restoration.
The Restoration is over and Robert Merivel, renowned physician and courtier to Charles II, now faces the anxieties of middle age.
Questions crowd his mind: has he been a good father? Is he a fair master? Is he the King's friend or the King's slave? In search of answers, Merivel sets off for the French court.
But Versailles leaves him in despair, until a chance encounter with a seductive Swiss botanist allows him to dream of an honourable future. But back home, his loyalty and medical skill are about to be tested to the limit, while the captive bear he has brought back from France begins to cause havoc ...
With a cascade of lace at his neck and a laugh that can burst out of him in the midst of torment, Merivel is soulful, outrageous and achingly sad. His unmistakable, self-mocking voice speaks directly to us down the centuries.
‘Tremain is a writer of exemplary vision and particularity. The fictional world is rendered with extraordinary vividness.’ - The Guardian
‘A writer of exceptional talent ... Tremain is a writer who understands every emotion.’ - The Independent
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